An indicator for effects of organic toxicants on lotic invertebrate communities: Independence of confounding environmental factors over an extensive river continuum

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 980-987

  Beketov, Mikhail A ^a   Liess, Matthias ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bioassessment; Macroinvertebrates; Organic toxicants; River continuum; Sensitivity; SPEAR

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; PETROCHEMICALS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

BIOASSESSMENT; MACROINVERTEBRATES; ORGANIC TOXICANTS; RIVER CONTINUUM; SENSITIVITY; SPEAR;

RIVERS;

INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SURFACTANT;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INVERTEBRATE; LOTIC ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTION EFFECT;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MACROINVERTEBRATE; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVER; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CHAIN; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; INVERTEBRATES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RIVERS; SIBERIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 55649113966     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2008.05.005     Document Type: Article

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