Influence of industrial heavy metal pollution on soil free-living nematode population

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 172-183

  Pen Mouratov, Stanislav ^a   Shukurov, Nosir ^b   Steinberger, Yosef ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b S YU YUNUSOV INSTITUTE OF THE CHEMISTRY OF PLANT SUBSTANCES   (Uzbekistan)

Author keywords

Diversity; Heavy metal; Nematode; Soil

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FUNGI; HEAVY METALS; SOILS;

INDUSTRIAL HEAVY METAL POLLUTION; NEMATODE POPULATION;

AIR POLLUTION;

CADMIUM; CALCIUM; COPPER; GOLD; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; POTASSIUM; SILVER; SODIUM; ZINC;

BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISTURBANCE; HEAVY METAL; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; JUVENILE; NEMATODE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SEX RATIO; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIVORE; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; POLLUTION; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL MANAGEMENT; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METALS, HEAVY; NEMATODA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; UZBEKISTAN;

ASIA; EURASIA; UZBEKISTAN; WEST ASIA;

FUNGI; NEMATODA;

EID: 39749163642     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.05.007     Document Type: Article

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