Relationships between ecological risk indices for metals and benthic communities metrics in a macrophyte-dominated lake

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 40, Issue , 2014, Pages 162-174

  Zhang, Lulu ^a   Liu, Jingling ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Benthic macroinvertebrate; Ecological risk index; Heavy metals; Periphyton community; Structural and functional metrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894097757     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.01.021     Document Type: Article

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