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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Associação Brasileira de Limnologia
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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 |