Acute and chronic toxicity of effluent water from an abandoned uranium mine

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 207-213

  Antunes, S C ^a   Pereira, R ^a   Goncalves F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER; WATER;

ABANDONED MINE; CRUSTACEAN; EFFLUENT; GROWTH RATE; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY; URANIUM; WATER POLLUTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; DAPHNIA; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GROWTH RATE; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); POND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENTATION; SOIL; SOLID; URANIUM MINE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; ZOOPLANKTON;

ACUTE TOXICITY TESTS; ANIMALS; DAPHNIA; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METALS; MINING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PORTUGAL; REPRODUCTION; TOXICITY TESTS, CHRONIC; URANIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CUNHA BAIXA MINE; EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VISEU [PORTUGAL];

DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA LONGISPINA; DAPHNIA MAGNA;

EID: 34250865629     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-006-0011-9     Document Type: Article

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