Scale-dependency of macroinvertebrate communities: Responses to contaminated sediments within run-of-river dams

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1336-1343

  Colas, Fanny ^a   Archaimbault Virginie, V ^b   Devin, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Contaminated sediments; Functional traits; Invertebrates; Run of river dams; Scale dependency

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATED SEDIMENT; FUNCTIONAL TRAITS; INVERTEBRATES; RUN-OF-RIVER DAMS; SCALE-DEPENDENCY;

ANIMALS; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIODIVERSITY; CONTAMINATION; DAMS; ECOSYSTEMS; POLLUTION; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

RIVER POLLUTION;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DAM; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; MACROINVERTEBRATE; POLLUTION EFFECT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EROSION; LITTORAL SPECIES; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION; VEGETATION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIODIVERSITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INVERTEBRATES; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WEIGHTS AND MEASURES;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 79851508701     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.12.037     Document Type: Article

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