Assessing pollution of toxic sediment in streams using bio-ecological traits of benthic macroinvertebrates

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1430-1446

  Archaimbault, Virginie ^a   Usseglio Polatera, Philippe ^b   Garric, Jeanne ^a   Wasson, Jean Gabriel ^a   Babut, Marc ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b Faculté des Sciences et Technologies   (France)

Author keywords

Bio assessment; Macroinvertebrates; Species traits; Statistical design; Toxic contamination

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954615851     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02281.x     Document Type: Article

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