Putting pharmaceuticals into the wider context of challenges to fish populations in rivers

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1656, 2014, Pages

  Johnson, Andrew C ^a   Sumpter, John P ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemicals; Fish; Flow; Habitat; Pollution

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DRUG; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EXTINCTION; FISH; HABITAT QUALITY; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVER WATER; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

WATER POLLUTANT;

ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISH; HISTORY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVER; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84907822118     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0581     Document Type: Article

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