Heavy metals: Confounding factors in the response of New Zealand freshwater fish assemblages to natural and anthropogenic acidity

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 3240-3250

  Greig, Hamish S ^a   Niyogi, Dev K ^b   Hogsden, Kristy L ^a   Jellyman, Phillip G ^a   Harding, Jon S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acidification; AMD; Local adaptation; Multiple stressors; Toxicity; Trace metals

Indexed keywords

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ACIDIC WATER; AMD; DISSOLVED METAL CONCENTRATIONS; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; FISH COMMUNITIES; FRESH WATER; FRESHWATER FISHES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LOCAL ADAPTATION; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; METAL TOLERANCE; MULTIPLE STRESSORS; NATURAL LEACHING; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND , NEW ZEALAND; TRACE METAL; WEST COAST;

ALUMINUM; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISSOLUTION; FISH; HEAVY METALS; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; LEACHING; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; METALS; ORGANIC ACIDS; TOXICITY; TRACE ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; ZINC;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

ALUMINUM; HEAVY METAL; IRON; MANGANESE; NICKEL; ZINC; ACID; FRESH WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ACIDIFICATION; ACIDITY; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; FISH; FRESHWATER; HEAVY METAL; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; LOCAL ADAPTATION; PH; POLLUTION TOLERANCE; REMEDIATION; TRACE METAL; WATER QUALITY;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ACIDIFICATION; ACIDITY; ANGUILLA AUSTRALIS; ANGUILLA DIEFFENBACHII; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHEIMARRICHTHYS FOSTERI; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY GRADIENT; EEL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; FRESHWATER FISH; GALAXIAS; GOBIOMORPHUS HUBBSI; METAL TOLERANCE; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WATER CONTAMINATION; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PH; WATER POLLUTANT;

ACIDS; ANIMALS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FRESH WATER; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; METALS, HEAVY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; WEST COAST [SOUTH ISLAND];

ANGUILLA AUSTRALIS; ANGUILLA DIEFFENBACHII; CHEIMARRICHTHYS FOSTERI; GALAXIAS; GOBIOMORPHUS HUBBSI; LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS; PHILYPNODON;

EID: 77953697094     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.04.006     Document Type: Article

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