Assessing the impact of effluents from a modern wastewater treatment plant on breakdown of coarse particulate organic matter and benthic macroinvertebrates in a lowland river

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 180, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 119-129

  Spänhoff, Bernd ^a,b   Bischof, Roland ^a   Böhme, Anne ^a   Lorenz, Stefan ^a   Neumeister, Katharina ^a   Nöthlich, Antje ^a   Küsel, Kirsten ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Saxon State Agency for Environment and Geology (lFUG)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breakdown rates; CPOM; Effluents; Leaf litter; Wastewater treatment plant; Water pollution

Indexed keywords

EFFLUENTS; PURIFICATION; RIVERS; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BREAKDOWN RATES; COARSE PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER (CPOM); LEAF LITTER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT;

RIVER POLLUTION;

AMMONIA; CHLORIDE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; NITRATE; SULFATE;

EFFLUENTS; PURIFICATION; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BIODEGRADATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DIVERSITY INDEX; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LEAF LITTER; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER POLLUTION; ZOOBENTHOS;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EFFLUENT; GERMANY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MICROINVERTEBRATE; MINERALIZATION; STREAM (RIVER); WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; SAALE RIVER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHIRONOMIDAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33846876719     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-006-9255-2     Document Type: Article

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