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Ecotoxicological studies of acidity in Welsh streams

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Acid Waters in Wales

Part of the book series: Monographiae Biologicae ((MOBI,volume 66))

Abstract

Faunal distributions in soft waters are often related to total hardness, pH and filterable aluminium (Chaps. 2, 7). These relationships may be explained by one or more of the following hypotheses:

  1. 1.

    Acidity or related aspects of water chemistry exert direct physiological effects which limit species distributions.

  2. 2.

    Species are indirectly influenced by interactions with other organisms which are themselves limited by direct physiological effects.

  3. 3.

    The relationship with water chemistry is spurious, because species are controlled by physiographic effects which correlate with water chemistry.

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Weatherley, N.S., McCahon, C.P., Pascoe, D., Ormerod, S.J. (1990). Ecotoxicological studies of acidity in Welsh streams. In: Edwards, R.W., Gee, A.S., Stoner, J.H. (eds) Acid Waters in Wales. Monographiae Biologicae, vol 66. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1894-8_11

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