Detecting anthropogenic stress in an ecosystem: 1. Meiofauna in a sewage gradient

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 155-170

  Hewitt, Elizabeth J ^a   Mudge, Stephen M ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community structure; Diversity; Meiofauna; Multivariate statistics; PCA; PLS; Pollution

Indexed keywords

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 4744356399     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15275920490495882     Document Type: Article

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