Chronic toxicity of Great Lakes sediments to Daphnia magna: Elutriate effects on survival, reproduction and population growth

Ecotoxicology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 83-102

  Bridges, Todd S ^a   Wright, Rachel Burres ^b   Gray, Brian R ^b   Gibson, Alfreda B ^a   Dillon, Tom M ^a  

^a WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION   (United States)

^b AScI Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic toxicity; Daphnia magna; Population modelling; Sediment elutriates

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC TOXICITY; DAPHNIA; LAKE; MODEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEDIMENT; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA;

DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; LAKE; SEDIMENT; TOXICITY;

CANADA, ONTARIO, GREAT LAKES; USA, GREAT LAKES;

EID: 0029668019     PISSN: 09639292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00119048     Document Type: Article

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