Silver toxicity to Chironomus tentans in two freshwater sediments

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 30-39

  Call, Daniel J ^a   Polkinghorne, Christine N ^a   Markee, Thomas P ^a   Brooke, Larry T ^a   Geiger, Dianne L ^a   Gorsuch, Joseph W ^b   Robillard, Kenneth A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SUPERIOR   (United States)

^b EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chironomus tentans; Freshwater; Sediments; Silver; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; LAKE WATER; SILVER;

LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE POLLUTION; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SILVER;

ANALYTIC METHOD; AQUATIC FAUNA; BENTHOS; COMPLEX FORMATION; LETHALITY; LIGAND BINDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEDIMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032894734     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1999)018<0030:STTCTI>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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