Laboratory effects of microcosm size and the pesticide chlorpyrifos on benthic macroinvertebrate colonization of soft estuarine sediments

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 243-263

  Flemer, David A ^a   Ruth, Barbara F ^a,c   Bundrick, Charles M ^b   Moore, James C ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

^c FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORPYRIFOS; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BARNACLE; BENTHOS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; INVERTEBRATE; LABORATORY; NONHUMAN; POLYCHAETA; SEA POLLUTION; SEDIMENT;

CHLORPYRIFOS; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DENSITY; DESIGN FACTORS; INSECTICIDE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MACROINVERTEBRATES; MICROCOSM; MICROCOSMS; OCEANOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT; PESTICIDES; ZOOBENTHOS;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALIA; BALANUS; CIRRIPEDIA; COROPHIUM ACHERUSICUM; ENSIS MINOR; NEANTHES SUCCINEA; POLYCHAETA; SUCCINEA;

EID: 0030620504     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-1136(96)00080-3     Document Type: Article

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