Individual and combined effects of fine sediment and the herbicide glyphosate on benthic macroinvertebrates and stream ecosystem function

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1729-1744

  Magbanua, Francis S ^a,b   Townsend, Colin R ^a   Hageman, Kimberly J ^a   Matthaei, Christoph D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b University of the Philippines Diliman   (Philippines)

Author keywords

agricultural stressors; agriculture; biological traits; leaf breakdown; multiple stressors; stream mesocosms

Indexed keywords

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EID: 84879841843     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12163     Document Type: Article

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