Mercury contamination of macroinvertebrates in fishless grassland ponds

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 468-474

  Blackwell, Bradley D ^a   Drenner, Ray W ^a  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; HYDROPHILIDAE; NOTONECTIDAE;

EID: 72549113054     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1894/JS-25.1     Document Type: Article

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