Ecological attributes of the benthic community and indices of water quality in urban, rural and preserved environments

INTRODUCTION: Reference streams are pristine streams, untouched or unaltered by man, it being possible to use their environmental characteristics as quality threshold values. Besides the organic impacts measured via water quality biological monitoring programs, it has become necessary to evaluate th...

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Main Authors: Claudia Eiko Yoshida, Ana Paula Pozzo Rios Rolla
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Limnologia
Series:Acta Limnologica Brasiliensia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2179-975X2012000300002&lng=en&tlng=en