Effect of multiple stressors on water quality and macroinvertebrate assemblages in an effluent-dominated stream

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 198, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 359-371

  Canobbio, Sergio ^a   Mezzanotte, Valeria ^a   Sanfilippo, Umberto ^b   Benvenuto, Federica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Benthic macroinvertebrates; Droughts; Floods; Pollution; Urban streams; Wastewater treatment plant effluents

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES; DROUGHTS; POLLUTION; URBAN STREAMS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT EFFLUENTS;

DECISION MAKING; DROUGHT; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; FLOODS; HYDROLOGY; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; RIVER POLLUTION; SEWAGE; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; STREAM FLOW; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER RECYCLING; WATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

RIVERS;

EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; MACROINVERTEBRATE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SEWAGE; STREAM; STREAMFLOW; URBANIZATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LOMBARDY; MILAN; MILANO [LOMBARDY]; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 60349100818     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-008-9851-4     Document Type: Article

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