The effects of a C12-13 linear alcohol ethoxylate surfactant on periphyton, macrophytes, invertebrates and fish in stream mesocosms

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1634-1645

  Dorn, Philip B ^a   Rodgers Jr , John H ^b   Gillespie Jr , William B ^b   Lizotte Jr , Richard E ^b   Dunn, Arthur W ^b  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol ethoxylate surfactant; Ecological assessment; Nonionic surfactant; Stream mesocosm

Indexed keywords

SURFACTANT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FISH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLADOCERA; COPEPODA; CYPRINIFORMES; INVERTEBRATA; LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS; MYRIOPHYLLUM AQUATICUM; PHOXINUS PHOXINUS; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; SIMULIIDAE;

EID: 0030838421     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1997)016<1634:TEOACL>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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