Vulnerability of organic acid tolerant wetland biota to the effects of inorganic acidification

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1868-1877

  McCullough, Cherie D ^a   Horwitz, Pierre ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acid sulfate; Acidification; Macroinvertebrates; Natural acidity; Periphyton; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; ORGANIC CARBON; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WETLANDS;

ACID SULPHATE SOILS; ACID SULPHATES; ACID-TOLERANT; INORGANICS; MACROINVERTEBRATES; MESOCOSMS; NATURAL ACIDITY; PERIPHYTONS; WATERBODIES; ZOOPLANKTON;

ACIDIFICATION;

ALUMINUM; CHLOROPHYLL A; COPPER; IRON; MANGANESE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON;

ACID SULFATE SOIL; ACIDIFICATION; BIOTA; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; MESOCOSM; NITROGEN; ORGANIC ACID; PERIPHYTON; WETLAND; ZOOPLANKTON;

ACIDIFICATION; ACIDITY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIATOM; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MESOCOSM; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL TOLERANCE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WATER ANALYSIS; WETLAND; ZOOPLANKTON;

AUSTRALIA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 77349119358     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.01.034     Document Type: Article

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