Effects of chronic copper exposure on fluvial systems: Linking structural and physiological changes of fluvial biofilms with the in-stream copper retention

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 5274-5282

  Serra, A ^a   Guasch, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cu chronic exposure; Cu retention; Periphyton; Rivers; Spiraling

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BIOMASS; BROWN ALGAE; COPPER EXPOSURE; COPPER RETENTION; CU CHRONIC EXPOSURE; CU CONTENT; CU RETENTION; CU TOLERANCE; FLUVIAL SYSTEMS; FUNCTIONAL CHANGES; GREEN ALGA; PER UNIT; PERIPHYTON; PERIPHYTON COMMUNITY; PHOTOSYNTHETIC EFFICIENCY; RETENTION EFFICIENCIES; RIVER SYSTEMS; SPIRALING;

BIOFILMS; BIOMASS; COPPER; METALS; PHYTOPLANKTON; RIVERS; WATER QUALITY;

RIVER POLLUTION;

COPPER; PHOSPHATE;

ACCLIMATION; BROWN ALGA; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COPPER; GREEN ALGA; PERIPHYTON; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION TOLERANCE; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVER SYSTEM; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOMASS; BROWN ALGA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GREEN ALGA; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; METAL TOLERANCE; NONHUMAN; PERIPHYTON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; WATER QUALITY;

ALGAE; BIOFILMS; CHLOROPHYLL; COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FRESH WATER; PHOSPHATES; TOXICITY TESTS, CHRONIC; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; PHAEOPHYCEAE;

EID: 68049084581     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.06.008     Document Type: Article

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