75 years after mining ends stream insect diversity is still by heavy metals

Ecotoxicology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1416-1425

  Lefcort, Hugh ^a   Vancura, James ^a   Lider, Edward L ^b  

^a GONZAGA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Heavy metal; Insect; Mining

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; ZINC; OXYGEN;

ABANDONED MINE; CADMIUM; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; HEAVY METAL; INSECT; MINE WASTE; POLLUTION EFFECT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLY; INSECT; MINING; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PH; PLECOPTERAN; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREAM (RIVER); UNITED STATES; WATER FLOW; WATER TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; LARVA; METHODOLOGY; RIVER; SEDIMENT; TEMPERATURE; TIME; WATER POLLUTANT;

UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; PLECOPTERA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IDAHO; INSECTS; LARVA; METALS, HEAVY; MINING; OXYGEN; RIVERS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 79952278337     PISSN: 09639292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10646-010-0526-8     Document Type: Article

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