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Fish community responses to metal pollution.
Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) - 1 Nov 2005
Bervoets Lieven, Knaepkens Guy, Eens Marcel, Blust Ronny
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The effect of metal pollution on fish communities was assessed at 47 sites, including a Cd and Zn gradient. Fish community structure was assessed by applying diversity indices, index of biotic integrity and the abundance/biomass comparison method (ABC-index). To relate the community responses to metal pollution, toxic unit values for dissolved metals (TU(w)) and for metals in fish liver (TU(t)) were calculated....
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