Real-time monitoring of water quality using fish and crayfish as bio-indicators: A review

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 5043-5053

  Kuklina, Iryna ^a   Kouba, Antonín ^a   Kozák, Pavel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Aquatic environment; Invertebrates; Online biological monitoring; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; ASSESSMENT OF WATER QUALITIES; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; INVERTEBRATES; PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; VERTEBRATES; WATER QUALITY MONITORING; WATER-SUPPLY STATIONS;

BIOSENSORS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FISH; LAKES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS; SHELLFISH; WATER QUALITY;

WATER POLLUTION;

BIOINDICATOR; BIOMONITORING; CRAYFISH; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POLLUTION MONITORING; REAL TIME; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; TELEMETRY; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; AQUATIC SPECIES; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAYFISH; CRUSTACEA; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISH; HEART RATE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REVIEW; TELEMETRY; TOXICITY TESTING; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMALS; ASTACOIDEA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER QUALITY;

ASTACOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84879042775     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-2924-2     Document Type: Review

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