Efficiency of Pollution Tolerance Index (PTI) of macroinvertebrates in detecting aquatic pollution in an oxbow lake in India

This paper evaluates the efficiency of a macroinvertebrate-based Pollution Tolerance Index (PTI) in detecting aquatic pollution in the Chhariganga oxbow lake in India. In this lake, calculated PTIs were compared with results from an array of physicochemical water and sediment parameters and to a mac...

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Main Authors: Dipankar Ghosh, Jayanta Kumar Biswas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana 2017-11-01
Series:Universitas Scientiarum
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Online Access:http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/scientarium/article/view/18081/16076