Responses of aquatic insects to Cu and Zn in stream microcosms: Understanding differences between single species tests and field responses

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 7506-7513

  Clements, William H ^a   Cadmus, Pete ^a   Brinkman, Stephen F ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b Colorado Parks and Wildlife ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL RESEARCHES; EXPOSURE CONCENTRATION; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; MICROCOSM EXPERIMENTS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SHORT DURATIONS; STREAM ECOSYSTEMS; WATER QUALITY CRITERIA;

METALS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; ZINC;

EXPERIMENTS;

COPPER; ZINC;

AQUATIC ORGANISM; BIOINDICATOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FLY; HEAVY METAL; MICROCOSM; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STREAM; TOXICITY; WATER QUALITY;

ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); INSECT; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; STREAM (RIVER); TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; COPPER; INSECTS; RIVERS; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZINC;

EID: 84880083049     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es401255h     Document Type: Article

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