Detecting benthic community responses to pollution in estuaries: A field mesocosm approach

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 175, Issue , 2013, Pages 45-55

  O'Brien, Allyson L ^a   Keough, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Communities; Estuaries; Experiment; Invertebrate; Pollution

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BENTHIC COMMUNITIES; CAPITELLA; CONTAMINATED SEDIMENT; DEFAUNATED; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; INVERTEBRATE; MESOCOSMS; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; SEDIMENT CONTAMINATION; SEDIMENT PROPERTIES; SITE CHARACTERISTICS; SOURCE LOCATION; SOUTHEASTERN AUSTRALIA; STRESS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS; POLLUTION; POLLUTION DETECTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

ESTUARIES;

BENTHOS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; MESOCOSM; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLYCHAETE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BENTHIC FAUNA; BENTHOS; CAPITELLA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTUARINE SPECIES; ESTUARY; MESOCOSM; NONHUMAN; POLYCHAETA; SEDIMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARIES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METALS; POLYCHAETA; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

AUSTRALIA;

CAPITELLA; INVERTEBRATA; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 84872394470     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2012.11.038     Document Type: Article

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