Application of diatom biotic indices in the Guadalquivir River Basin, a Mediterranean basin. Which one is the most appropriated?

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 170, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 519-534

  Martín, Gonzalo ^a   Toja, Julia ^a   Sala, Silvia Estela ^b   Fernández, María De Los Reyes ^a   Reyes, Isabel ^a   Casco, María Adela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS NATURALES Y MUSEO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Biotic indices; Diatoms; Rivers; Spain; Water quality

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC INDEX; CATCHMENT AREA; DIATOM COMMUNITIES; DIATOMS; ECONOMIC COMMUNITY; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; MEDITERRANEAN BASIN; MONITORING WATER QUALITY; POLLUTION INDEX; RIVER BASINS; RIVER CATCHMENT; SPAIN; STUDY AREAS; WATER CHEMISTRY;

EUTROPHICATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; RIVERS; RUNOFF; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

CATCHMENTS;

AMMONIA; ARSENIC; ATRAZINE; CADMIUM; COPPER; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; MERCURY; NITRATE; PESTICIDE; PHOSPHORUS; SOLUBLE REACTIVE PHOSPHORUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC;

BIOTIC FACTOR; CATCHMENT; DIATOM; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; EUTROPHICATION; RIVER BASIN; TAXONOMY; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY;

ACHNANTHIDIUM BIASOLETTIANUM; ACHNANTHIDIUM MINUSTISSIMUM; AMPHORA PEDICULUS; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COCCONEIS PLACENTULA; CONDUCTANCE; DIATOM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GOMPHONEMA PARVULUM; MACROALGA; MICROALGA; NITZSCHIA CAPITELLATA; NITZSCHIA FRUSTULUM; NITZSCHIA INCONSPICUA; NONHUMAN; RIVER BASIN; SALINITY; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY;

BIODIVERSITY; DIATOMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTION;

ANDALUCIA; GUADALQUIVIR BASIN; SPAIN;

ACHNANTHIDIUM MINUTISSIMUM; AMPHORA OVALIS PEDICULUS; BACILLARIOPHYTA; NITZSCHIA CAPITELLATA; NITZSCHIA FRUSTULUM;

EID: 77957673883     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-009-1254-5     Document Type: Article

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