Transfer and effects of cadmium in an experimental food chain involving the snail Helix aspersa and the predatory carabid beetle Chrysocarabus splendens

Chemosphere

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 571-579

  Scheifler, R ^a,b   Gomot de Vaufleury, A ^a,b   Toussaint, M L ^a,b   Badot, P M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b Pole Universitaire   (France)

Author keywords

Bioaccumulation; Ecotoxicology; Heavy metal; Terrestrial invertebrates

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CADMIUM;

PREDATORS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CADMIUM;

BIOACCUMULATION; CADMIUM; FOOD CHAIN; MORTALITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CADMIUM POISONING; CHRYSOCARABUS SPLENDENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FOOD CHAIN; HATCHING; HELIX ASPERSA; INSECT; JUVENILE; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; TISSUE LEVEL; TOXICITY TESTING; TOXICOKINETICS; ANIMAL; DIET; HELIX (SNAIL); LD 50; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER POLLUTANT;

CARABIDAE; CARABUS SPLENDENS; CHRYSOCARABUS; CHRYSOCARABUS SPLENDENS; COLEOPTERA; GASTROPODA; HELIX ASPERSA; INVERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; CADMIUM; DIET; FOOD CHAIN; HELIX (SNAILS); LARVA; LETHAL DOSE 50; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 0035987545     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(02)00116-9     Document Type: Article

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