Effects of metal pollution on earthworm communities in a contaminated floodplain area: Linking biomarker, community and functional responses

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 895-903

  van Gestel, Cornelis A M ^a   Koolhaas, Josée E ^a   Hamers, Timo ^a   van Hoppe, Maarten ^a   van Roovert, Martijn ^a   Korsman, Cora ^a   Reinecke, Sophie A ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Earthworms; Functional endpoints; Metal pollution; Neutral red retention

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL LEVELS; COPPER CONCENTRATIONS; EARTHWORM COMMUNITIES; EARTHWORMS; FEEDING ACTIVITIES; FUNCTIONAL ENDPOINTS; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSES; FUNCTIONAL ROLES; LABORATORY TESTS; LITTERBAG; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; METAL POLLUTION; NETHERLANDS; NEUTRAL RED RETENTION; POLLUTANT LEVELS; POLLUTED SITES; RETENTION TIMES;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); BIOMASS; COPPER; METALS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLLUTION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SOILS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

CADMIUM; COPPER; METAL; NEUTRAL RED; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; ZINC;

ABUNDANCE; BIOMARKER; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COPPER; DECOMPOSITION; EARTHWORM; FLOODPLAIN; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; LABORATORY METHOD; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTION EFFECT; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; EARTHWORM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FIELD STUDY; FLOODPLAIN; LABORATORY TEST; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SOIL POLLUTION; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; COLORING AGENTS; FLOODS; METALS; NETHERLANDS; NEUTRAL RED; OLIGOCHAETA; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

BENELUX; BIESBOS; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; NORTH BRABANT; WESTERN EUROPE;

LUMBRICUS RUBELLUS;

EID: 58249134726     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2008.11.002     Document Type: Article

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