Assessing sediment quality in Spanish ports using a green alga bioassay;Evaluación de la calidad del sedimento en puertos Españoles mediante un bioensayo con algas verdes

Ciencias Marinas

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 329-337

  Morales Caselles, Carmen ^a,c   Rico, A ^b   Abbondanzi, F ^b   Campisi, T ^b   Iacondini, A ^b   Riba, I ^a,c   DelValls, A ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS MARINAS DE ANDALUCÍA   (Spain)

^b Fenice SpA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bioassay; Dunaliella tertiolecta; Mciroalga; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; COASTAL ZONE; GREEN ALGA; MICROALGA; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PORT; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TOXICITY; TOXICOLOGY; TRACE METAL; XENOBIOTICS;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; DUNALIELLA TERTIOLECTA;

EID: 54849406382     PISSN: 01853880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7773/cm.v34i3.1398     Document Type: Article

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