Ecosystem engineering potential of the gastropod Terebralia palustris (Linnaeus, 1767) in mangrove wastewater wetlands - A controlled mesocosm experiment

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 258-266

  Penha Lopes, Gil ^a,b   Bartolini, Fabrizio ^c   Limbu, Samwel ^d   Cannicci, Stefano ^c   Mgaya, Yunus ^d   Kristensen, Erik ^e   Paula, José ^a  

^a Centra de Oceanografia   (Portugal)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Ecosystem engineering; Mangrove; Pollution; Survival; Terebralia palustris

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; IMMERSION PERIODS; MESOCOSMS; PRIMARY PRODUCERS; SEWAGE CONTAMINATION; SURVIVAL AND GROWTH; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGRICULTURE; CONTAMINATION; ECOSYSTEMS; LEAD; MARINAS; SEWAGE; WASTEWATER;

ENGINEERING;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GASTROPOD; GROWTH RATE; MANGROVE; MESOCOSM; POLLUTION INCIDENCE; SEWAGE; SURVIVAL; WETLAND;

ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GASTROPOD; GROWTH RATE; IMMERSION; MANGROVE; MESOCOSM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; SEDIMENT; SEWAGE; SURVIVAL RATE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WETLAND;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GASTROPODA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WETLANDS;

AVICENNIA MARINA; GASTROPODA; RHIZOPHORA MUCRONATA; TEREBRALIA PALUSTRIS;

EID: 74249091522     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.07.009     Document Type: Article

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