Industrial arsenic contamination causes catastrophic changes in freshwater ecosystems

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Chen, Guangjie ^a   Shi, Haibin ^a   Tao, Jianshuang ^a   Chen, Li ^a   Liu, Yuanyuan ^a   Lei, Guoliang ^b   Liu, Xiaohai ^c   Smol, John P ^d  

^a YUNNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Yunnan Institute of Environmental Science   (China)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; FRESH WATER; HEAVY METAL; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANALYSIS; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARSENIC; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; METALS, HEAVY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84948698262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep17419     Document Type: Article

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