Biofilms coating Schoenoplectus californicus as indicators of water quality in the Río de la Plata Estuary (Argentina)

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 133, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 309-320

  Bauer, Delia E ^a   Gómez, Nora ^a   Hualde, Paula R ^a  

^a Instituto de Limnologia Dr Raul A Ringuelet   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Biofilms; R o de la Plata Estuary; Schoenoplectus californicus; Water quality indicator

Indexed keywords

TURBIDITY VALUES; WATER QUALITY INDICATOR;

BIOFILMS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ESTUARIES; SAMPLING; WATER QUALITY;

WATER POLLUTION;

FRESH WATER; OXYGEN;

BIOFILM; BIOINDICATOR; BIOMASS; CILIATE; COATING; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIATOM; POLLUTION TOLERANCE; WATER QUALITY;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYPERACEAE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SCHOENOPLECTUS CALIFORNICUS; SEWAGE; TAXON; TURBIDITY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

ANGIOSPERMS; ARGENTINA; BIOFILMS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

RIO DE LA PLATA; SOUTH AMERICA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CILIOPHORA; SCHOENOPLECTUS CALIFORNICUS;

EID: 34548711378     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-006-9586-x     Document Type: Article

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