Ecotoxicity assessment of river sediments and a critical evaluation of some of the procedures used in the aquatic oligochaete Tubifex tubifex chronic bioassay

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 559-570

  Maestre, Z ^a   Martinez Madrid, M ^a   Rodriguez, P ^a   Reynoldson, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNELID; BIOASSAY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COCOON; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; MORTALITY; SAMPLING; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TOXICITY TEST; WATER QUALITY;

ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIOASSAY; BIOMASS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COCOON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICITY; MORTALITY; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; NONHUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BIOMASS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; OLIGOCHAETA; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BASQUE COUNTRY; EBRO BASIN; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ANNELIDA; CLITELLATA; TUBIFEX TUBIFEX;

EID: 35348877543     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-006-0264-3     Document Type: Article

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