Full life-cycle toxicity assessment using rotifer resting egg production: Implications for ecological risk assessment

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 399-406

  Preston, B L ^a   Snell, T W ^b  

^a Carolina Environmental Program   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological risk assessment; Rotifer; Sexual reproduction; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

COPPER; POTABLE WATER; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY;

EGG PRODUCTION;

ECOLOGY;

COPPER; PENTACHLOROPHENOL;

ECOTOXICOLOGY; EGG PRODUCTION; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; LIFE CYCLE; TOXICITY TEST;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EGG PRODUCTION; HELMINTH; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIFE CYCLE; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARD; TOXICITY TESTING; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; CHLOROPHENOLS; COPPER; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ECOLOGY; EGGS; FEMALE; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROTIFERA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TOXICITY TESTS;

BRACHIONUS CALYCIFLORUS;

EID: 0034921590     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(00)00232-3     Document Type: Article

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