The relationship between whole effluent toxicity (WET) and chemical-based effluent quality assessment in Vojvodina (Serbia)

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 158, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 381-392

  Teodorović, Ivana ^a   Bečelić, Milena ^a   Planojević, Ivana ^a   Ivančev Tumbas, Ivana ^a   Dalmacija, Božo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Acute tests; Daphnia magna; Priority pollutants; WET

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX MIXTURE; CURRENT MONITORING; DAPHNIA MAGNA; EFFLUENT MONITORING; EFFLUENT QUALITY; EFFLUENT TOXICITY; PRIORITY CHEMICALS; PRIORITY POLLUTANTS; TOXICITY TEST;

INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); LAWS AND LEGISLATION; WATER QUALITY;

TOXICITY;

AMMONIA; ENVIRONMENTAL, INDUSTRIAL AND DOMESTIC CHEMICALS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BRACHIOPOD; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; EFFLUENT; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAPHNIA; EFFLUENT; EFFLUENT TOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; QUALITY CONTROL; SERBIA; TOXICITY TESTING; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

ANIMALS; DAPHNIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; SERBIA; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; YUGOSLAVIA;

SERBIA; VOJVODINA;

DAPHNIA MAGNA;

EID: 72349096202     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-008-0591-0     Document Type: Article

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