Bioavailability and chronic toxicity of cadmium in sediment to the estuarine amphipod Leptocheirus plumulosus

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2095-2101

  Dewitt, Theodore H ^a   Swartz, Richard C ^b   Hansen, David J ^b   Mcgovern, Douglas ^b   Berry, Walter J ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acid volatile sulfide; Amphipods; Cadmium; Chronic toxicity; Sediment

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM;

ARTICLE; CADMIUM POISONING; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ESTUARY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AMPHIPODA; LEPTOCHEIRUS PLUMULOSUS;

EID: 0029958065     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620151205     Document Type: Article

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