Waterbirds as bioindicators of wetland heavy metal pollution

Procedia Environmental Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue PART C, 2011, Pages 2769-2774

  Zhang, Wei Wei ^a   Ma, Jian Zhang ^b  

^a JIANGXI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHEAST FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bioindicator; Heavy metal; Waterbirds; Wetlands pollution

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOMARKERS; BIRDS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; HEAVY METALS; POLLUTION; WETLANDS;

BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; ENERGETIC PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; HEAVY METAL POLLUTION; INDICATOR SPECIES; SUB LETHAL EFFECTS; WATERBIRDS; WETLANDS POLLUTIONS;

WATER POLLUTION;

AVES;

EID: 84863150458     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18780296     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proenv.2011.09.429     Document Type: Conference Paper

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