THE EFFECT OF MINING WATER EFFLUENT ON BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES

Authors

RŮŽIČKOVÁ Sylvie WEISSOVÁ Veronika SCHENKOVÁ Jana HELEŠIC Jan

Year of publication 2013
Type Conference abstract
Citation
Description The study was conducted at the Nedvedicka River, which is a recipient of heated decontaminated mining water discharging from the last operating underground uranium mine in the Czech Republic.The mining water tributary influenced physico-chemical characteristics of the Nedvědička River downstream, mainly conductivity, temperature, pH and inorganic carbon (increase) and nutrients (decrease). We observed change of qualitative, quantitative and functional characteristics of benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages.
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