Field effects of pollutants in dynamic environments. A case study on earthworm populations in river floodplains contaminated with heavy metals

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 26-31

  Klok, Chris ^a   Goedhart, Paul W ^a   Vandecasteele, Bart ^b,c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES RESEARCH ILVO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Earthworms; Ecological risk assessment; Heavy metals; Interaction with flooding

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FLOODS; HEAVY METALS; IMPURITIES; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVERS; SOILS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EARTHWORMS; ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT; INTERACTION WITH FLOODING;

ECOLOGY;

COPPER; HEAVY METAL; ZINC;

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COPPER; EARTHWORM; FLOODPLAIN; HEAVY METAL; POLLUTION EFFECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL FAUNA; SOIL POLLUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BIOMASS; EARTHWORM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLOODING; HEAVY METAL POISONING; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; POLLUTANT; RIVER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; BELGIUM; BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; INDUSTRY; METALS, HEAVY; NETHERLANDS; OLIGOCHAETA; POPULATION DENSITY; RIVERS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WETLANDS;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33847333306     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2006.08.023     Document Type: Article

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