Water- and sediment-quality effects on Pimephales promelas spawning vary along an agriculture-to-urban land-use gradient

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 4847-4857

  Corsi, Steven R ^a   Klaper, Rebecca D ^b   Weber, Daniel N ^b   Bannerman, Roger T ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissolved oxygen; Fathead minnows; In situ bioassay; Specific conductance; Urban development; Watershed management

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND USE; AGRICULTURAL WATERSHEDS; ANTHROPOGENIC INFLUENCE; EGG PRODUCTION; FATHEAD MINNOW; FLOWTHROUGH; LINEAR RELATION; LOW DISSOLVED OXYGEN; MULTIPLE PARAMETERS; NONPOINT SOURCES; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; SEDIMENT QUALITY; SMALL WATERSHEDS; SPECIFIC CONDUCTANCE; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN SITE; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT; WATERSHED MANAGERS; WISCONSIN;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOASSAY; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; FORESTRY; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

RIVERS;

CHLORIDE; DISSOLVED OXYGEN;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOASSAY; BIOMONITORING; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; EGG PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FISH; LAND USE CHANGE; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SPAWNING; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; LAND USE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEDIMENT; SPAWNING; STREAM (RIVER); UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

ANIMALS; CHLORIDES; CYPRINIDAE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; MALE; OVUM; OXYGEN; REPRODUCTION; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER QUALITY; WISCONSIN;

PIMEPHALES PROMELAS;

EID: 80053326846     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.08.014     Document Type: Article

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