Individual, population and community level effects of subtle anthropogenic contamination in estuarine meiobenthos

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2751-2758

  Rubal, Marcos ^a   Guilhermino, Lúcia M ^a,b   Medina, Matías H ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c AVS Chile SA ^*  (Chile)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS LAGOS   (Chile)

Author keywords

Copper; Paronychocamptus nanus; Subtle contamination; Taxonomic resolution; Taxonomic sufficiency; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

PARONYCHOCAMPTUS NANUS; SUBTLE CONTAMINATION; TAXONOMIC RESOLUTION; TAXONOMIC SUFFICIENCY; TOLERANCE;

BIODIVERSITY; DECISION MAKING; ESTUARIES; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; POLLUTION DETECTION;

CONTAMINATION;

ADAPTATION; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; INTERPOPULATION VARIATION; MEIOFAUNA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION TOLERANCE; TOXICITY TEST;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ESTUARINE SPECIES; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MEIOFAUNA; NONHUMAN; SEA POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COPEPODA; FEMALE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MALE; METALS, HEAVY; PORTUGAL; RIVERS; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

COPEPODA; HARPACTICOIDA; PARONYCHOCAMPTUS NANUS;

EID: 68049115650     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.04.026     Document Type: Article

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