Leeches as Sensor-bioindicators of River Contamination by PCBs

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Authors	MACOVA Stanislava HARUŠTIAKOVÁ Danka KOLAROVA Jitka MACHOVA Jana ZLABEK Vladimir VYKUSOVA Blanka RANDAK Tomas VELISEK Josef POLESZCZUK Gorzyslaw HAJSLOVA Jana PULKRABOVA Jana SVOBODOVA Zdenka
Year of publication	2009
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Sensors
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Field	Water pollution and control
Keywords	PCB indicator congeners; Skalice River; Erpobdella
Description	The aim of the study was to evaluate the use of leeches of the genus Erpobdella as a means of assessing polychlorinated biphenyl contamination of watercourses.
Related projects:	Interactions among the chemicals, environment and biological systems and their consequences on the global, regional and local scales (INCHEMBIOL)