Monitoring of industrial effluent ecotoxicity in the greater Thessaloniki area

Desalination

Volumn 224, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 261-270

  Soupilas, A ^a   Papadimitriou, C A ^b,c   Samaras, P ^b   Gudulas, K ^b   Petridis, D ^c  

^a Water Supply and Sewerage Company of Thessaloniki SA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^c ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bioassays; Daphnia magna; Ecotoxicity; Industrial wastewaters; Tetrahymena thermophilla; Vibrio fischeri

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; STATISTICAL METHODS; TOXICITY; WASTEWATER;

BIOLUMINESCENCE INHIBITION; ECOTOXICITY; UNICELLULAR ORGANISM;

EFFLUENTS;

BIOASSAY; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EFFLUENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; STATISTICAL METHODS; TOXICITY; WASTEWATER;

CRUSTACEA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; PHOTOBACTERIUM; PROTOZOA; TETRAHYMENA; THESSALONIKI; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

EID: 38849163604     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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