Do amphipods have the same concentration-response to contaminated sediment in situ as in vitro?

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1026-1037

  DeWitt, Theodore H ^a   Hickey, Christopher W ^b   Morrisey, Donald J ^b   Nipper, Marion G ^c   Roper, David S ^d   Williamson, R Bruce ^b   Van Dam, Lawrence ^b   Williams, Erica K ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^d Crown Co Monitoring Advisory Unit   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity; Amphipods; Cadmium; In situ; Sediment

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; SULFIDE; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSTACEA; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEAVY METAL POISONING; INCUBATION TIME; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; SEDIMENT; SURVIVAL; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALIA; CHAETOCOROPHIUM; CHAETOCOROPHIUM LUCASI; CRUSTACEA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032972268     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620180530     Document Type: Article

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