The acute toxicity of agricultural surfactants to the tadpoles of four Australian and two exotic frogs

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 195-205

  Mann, R M ^a   Bidwell, J R ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity; Amphibian tadpole; Narcosis; Nonionic surfactant; Nonylphenol ethoxylate

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ALCOHOLS; BIODIVERSITY; OXYGEN; PESTICIDES; TOXICITY;

AMPHIBIANS;

SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

ALCOHOL ALKOXYLATE; ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; NONIONIC SURFACTANT; NONYLPHENOL ETHOXYLATE; OLIGOMER; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ACUTE TOXICITY; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FROG; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; REARING; TADPOLE; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANURA; DETERGENTS; ETHYLENE GLYCOLS; LARVA; LETHAL DOSE 50; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TIME FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BUFO MARINUS; CRINIA; HELEIOPORUS; LIMNODYNASTES DORSALIS; LITORIA; TRIXIS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0034980257     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(00)00216-5     Document Type: Article

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