Field- and laboratory-determined behavioral avoidance and gill histological alterations of fish in response to acidic and alkaline pH conditions
The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of extreme acidic and alkaline pH excursions of fish populations in streams receiving fly ash settling basin effluent. Fish communities were sampled above and below the effluent outfall in a mountain stream, Adair Run, adjacent to the coal-fired...
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
2018
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/82889 |