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Main Title Group Report: Physiological and Ecological Effects of Acidification on Aquatic Biota (Chapter 19).
Author Baker, J. P. ; Boehmer, J. ; Hartmann, A. ; Havas, M. ; Jenkins, A. ;
CORP Author Corvallis Environmental Research Lab., OR. ;Wisconsin Univ.-Eau Claire.
Publisher c1994
Year Published 1994
Report Number EPA/600/A-94/158;
Stock Number PB94-210663
Additional Subjects Acidification ; Streams ; Water pollution effects ; Reprints ; Habitats ; Biological stress ; Aquatic ecosystems ; Microorganisms ; Acid deposition ; Response ; Chemical analysis ; Biological adaptation ; Invertebrates ; Inventories ; Evaluation ; Tolerances(Physiology) ;
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NTIS  PB94-210663 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
Acidification affects all components of biological communities in lakes and streams: microbes, algae, macrophytes, invertebrates, fish amphibians, and other vertebrates that rely on aquatic ecosystems for habitat or food. Mechanisms of effect are both direct (toxic responses to changes in chemistry) and indirect (e.g., expressed through the food chain or caused by changes in habitat), and the responses may be immediate or delayed. In turn, many biological processes, especially microbial processes, can influence surface water acid-base chemistry. Thus, chemical and biological changes are intricately linked and complex, with extensive feedbacks. Research on the effects of acid deposition and acidification on aquatic biota has been ongoing in Europe and North America for over the last 15 years, and many comprehensive reviews have been published. These gaps often have occurred because funding has focused on chemical mechanisms and modeling response of systems rather than in making resource inventories or resolving uncertainties in biological responses to acidification.