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THE EFFECT OF MINING WATER EFFLUENT ON BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| 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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