Multispecies toxicity assessment of compost produced in bioremediation of an explosives-contaminated sediment

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2529-2537

  Gunderson, Carla A ^a   Kostuk, Joanne M ^b   Gibbs, Mitchell H ^c   Napolitano, Guillermo E ^a   Wicker, Linda F ^a   Richmond, Jacqueline E ^a   Stewart, Arthur J ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Composting technology; Explosives bioremediation; Risk based decisions; Soil mesocosms; Soil toxicity testing

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; COMPOSTING; ECOSYSTEMS; GROWTH KINETICS; LIPIDS; MICROORGANISMS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEDIMENTS; SOIL POLLUTION CONTROL; SOIL TESTING;

BIOREMEDIATION; COMPOST; MULTISPECIES TOXICITY ASSESSMENT; SOIL MESOCOSMS;

TOXICITY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EARTHWORM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SOIL MICROFLORA; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TOXICITY TESTING;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; ISOPODA; PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI;

EID: 0031543299     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620161214     Document Type: Article

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