Environmental quality diagnosis in the Oja river (La Rioja, Spain) through the analysis of the benthonic macroinvertebrate community;Diagnóstico de la calidad ambiental del río Oja (La Rioja, España) mediante el análisis de la comunidad de macroinvertebrados bentónicos

Limnetica

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 733-744

  Martinez Bastida J J ^a   Arauzo, M ^a   Valladolid, M ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS AGRARIAS   (Spain)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic factors; IBMWP; Macroinvertebrates; Oja River; Water quality

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; MACROBENTHOS; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER FLOW; WATER QUALITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; LA RIOJA [SPAIN]; OJA RIVER; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 33846491376     PISSN: 02138409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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