Using meiofauna to assess pollutants in freshwater sediments: A microcosm study with cadmium

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 427-438

  Brinke, Marvin ^a   Ristau, Kai ^a   Bergtold, Matthias ^a   Höss, Sebastian ^b   Claus, Evelyn ^c   Heininger, Peter ^c   Traunspurger, Walter ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Ecological Sediment and Soil Assessment   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF HYDROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Community; Meiofauna; Microcosms; Microfauna; Nematodes

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY; MEIOFAUNA; MICROCOSMS; MICROFAUNA; NEMATODES;

ASTATINE; CADMIUM; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); PROTOZOA; RATING; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

POLLUTION;

CADMIUM; FRESH WATER;

ABUNDANCE; ANNELID; BENTHOS; CADMIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DOMINANCE; FRESHWATER SEDIMENT; MEIOFAUNA; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROCOSM; NEMATODE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POREWATER; PROTOZOAN;

ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DAPTONEMA; DORYLAIMUS; EUGLENA MUTABILIS; EUMONHYSTERA; FLAGELLATE; FLAGELLATE COMMUNITY; IRONUS; MEIOFAUNA; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROCOSM; MONONCHUS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUGLENA; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; NEMATODA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

DAPTONEMA; DORYLAIMUS; EUGLENA MUTABILIS; EUMONHYSTERA; IRONUS; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); MONONCHUS; NEMATODA; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA); PROTOZOA;

EID: 78651374333     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.387     Document Type: Article

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