Design of an electronically operated flow-through respirometer and its use to investigate the effects of copper on the respiration rate of the amphipod Gammarus pulex (L.)

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 610-616

  Kedwards, T J ^a,b   Blockwell, S J ^b   Taylor, E J ^b   Pascoe, D ^b  

^a JEALOTT S HILL RESEARCH STATION   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONICS; EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SHRIMP; SPIROMETER; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COPPER; CRUSTACEA; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; REFERENCE STANDARDS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GAMMARUS PULEX; PULEX;

EID: 0029794792     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001289900234     Document Type: Article

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