A mesocosm approach for detecting stream invertebrate community responses to treated wastewater effluent

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 95-102

  Grantham, Theodore E ^a   Cañedo Argüelles, Miguel ^a   Perrée, Isabelle ^a   Rieradevall, Maria ^a   Prat, Narcís ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aquatic invertebrates; Mediterranean streams; Mesocosm; Principal response curve; Wastewater effluent

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC INVERTEBRATES; MEDITERRANEAN STREAMS; MESOCOSMS; RESPONSE CURVES; WASTEWATER EFFLUENT;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ECOSYSTEMS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; RIVER POLLUTION; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

EFFLUENTS;

AMMONIA; PHOSPHATE; SULFATE;

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; EFFLUENT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MESOCOSM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MESOCOSM; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SPAIN; SPECIES COMPOSITION; STREAM (RIVER); WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INVERTEBRATES; RIVERS; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 80053927619     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2011.09.014     Document Type: Article

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