Seasonal changes of macroinvertebrate communities in a western cape river, south africa, receiving nonpoint-source insecticide pollution

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 809-817

  Bollmohr, Silke ^a,b   Schulz, Ralf ^b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Community structure; Ephemeroptera; Leptophlebiidae; Multivariate statistics; Organophosphate insecticides

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EPHEMEROPTERA; LEPTOPHLEBIIDAE; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS; ORGANOPHOSPHATE INSECTICIDES;

CONDITION MONITORING; CONTAMINATION; DROUGHT; INSECTICIDES; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER CONTROL;

RIVER POLLUTION;

AZINPHOS METHYL; CHLORPYRIFOS; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE; RAIN; RIVER WATER;

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; INSECTICIDE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; RAINFALL; RIVER POLLUTION; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ALGAL GROWTH; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTH AFRICA; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TAXONOMY; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMALS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INSECTICIDES; INVERTEBRATES; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PARTICLE SIZE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAIN; RIVERS; SEASONS; SOUTH AFRICA; TIME FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AFRICA; LOURENS RIVER; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

ALGAE; BAETIS; DEMOREPTUS; EPHEMEROPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPTOPHLEBIIDAE;

EID: 64849085599     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/08-228R.1     Document Type: Article

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