Responses of aquatic organisms to metal pollution in a lowland river in Flanders: A comparison of diatoms and macroinvertebrates

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 615-629

  De Jonge, Maarten ^a   Van de Vijver, Bart ^b   Blust, Ronny ^a   Bervoets, Lieven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b BOTANIC GARDEN MEISE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biotic indices; Diatoms; Macroinvertebrates; Metal pollution; Redundancy analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; AQUACULTURE; ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; CADMIUM; METALS; PHYTOPLANKTON; POLLUTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REDUNDANCY; RELIABILITY; RIVERS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; ZINC;

BIOTIC INDICES; DIATOMS; MACROINVERTEBRATES; METAL POLLUTION; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

AMMONIA; CHLORIDE; METAL; PHOSPHATE; WATER; ZINC;

CADMIUM; CHLORIDE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDUCTIVITY; DIATOM; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PH; PHOSPHATE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION EFFECT; RIVER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; ZINC;

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; DIATOM; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MICROINVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMALS; BELGIUM; DIATOMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INVERTEBRATES; METALS, HEAVY; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PHENOMENA; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BENELUX; DOMMEL RIVER; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; NORTH BRABANT; WESTERN EUROPE;

ASELLUS AQUATICUS; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BAETIS RHODANI; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; CLOEON DIPTERUM; EOLIMNA MINIMA; ERPOBDELLA; FRAGILARIA CAPUCINA; GAMMARUS PULEX; GOMPHONEMA PARVULUM; LEPTOCERUS INTERRUPTUS; NITZSCHIA PALEA; SELLAPHORA SEMINULUM; TABELLARIA FLOCCULOSA; TUBIFICIDAE;

EID: 56549123362     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.07.020     Document Type: Article

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