Responses of a free-living marine nematode community to mercury contamination: Results from microcosm experiments

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 426-433

  Hermi, M ^a   Mahmoudi, E ^a   Beyrem, H ^a   Aissa P ^a   Essid, N ^a  

^a University of Carthage   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LAGOON; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MICROCOSM; NEMATODE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LAGOON; MARYLYNNIA STEKHOVENI; MERCURIALISM; MICROCOSM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCHROMADORELLA NEAPOLITANA; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TUNISIA;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MERCURY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEMATODA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AFRICA; NORTH AFRICA; TUNISIA;

ARAEOLAIMUS BIOCULATUS; PROCHROMADORELLA;

EID: 63249132992     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-008-9217-3     Document Type: Article

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