Effects of pollution on macroinvertebrates and water quality bio-assessment

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 729, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 247-259

  Xu, Mengzhen ^a   Wang, Zhaoyin ^a   Duan, Xuehua ^b   Pan, Baozhu ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Jiangyin Water Conservancy and Farm Machinery Bureau   (China)

^c CHANGJIANG RIVER SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

Ecology; Macroinvertebrate; Pollution; Sediment; Water quality assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875522849     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-013-1504-y     Document Type: Article

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