The effects of chronic cadmium stress on energy acquisition and allocation in a freshwater benthic invertebrate predator

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 35, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 237-252

  Wicklum, Dan ^a,c   Davies, Ronald W ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bioenergetics; Cadmium; Chronic stress; Predator

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; BREATHING; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROWTH; GROWTH RATE; INVERTEBRATE; LEECH; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; STRESS;

ANIMALIA; HIRUDINIDA; INVERTEBRATA; NEPHELOPSIS OBSCURA; FRESHWATER LEECH;

BIOENERGETICS; CADMIUM; ENERGY ACQUISITION; ENERGY ALLOCATION; FRESHWATER LEECH; LEECH;

EID: 0030251316     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-445X(96)00795-3     Document Type: Article

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