Mullet and gudgeon liver histopathology and macroinvertebrate indexes and metrics upstream and downstream from a wastewater treatment plant (Febros River-Portugal)

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 169, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 569-585

  Pinto, Ana Lúcia ^a   Varandas, Simone ^a,b   Coimbra, Ana Maria ^a,b   Carrola, João ^a,b   Fontaínhas Fernandes, António ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bioindicators; Biomarkers; Gudgeon; Histopathology; Indexes; Liver; Macroinvertebrates; Metrics; Mullet

Indexed keywords

BIO-INDICATORS; GUDGEON; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INDEXES; MACROINVERTEBRATES; METRICS; MULLET;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; BIOMARKERS; ECOSYSTEMS; LIVER; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; RIVER POLLUTION; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

RIVERS;

BIOINDICATOR; BIOMARKER; BIOMONITORING; CYPRINID; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RIVER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICITY; FISH; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER TOXICITY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PORTUGAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CYPRINIDAE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INVERTEBRATES; LIVER; PORTUGAL; RIVERS; SMEGMAMORPHA; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

PORTUGAL;

EPHEMEROPTERA; GOBIO; GOBIO GOBIO; MUGIL CEPHALUS; PLECOPTERA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 77957689779     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-009-1197-x     Document Type: Article

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