Investigation of acute toxicity of cadmium chloride (CdCl2 · H2O) metal salt and behavioral changes it causes on water frog (Rana ridibunda Pallas, 1771)

Chemosphere

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 259-263

  Selvi, Mahmut ^a   Gül, Ali ^a   Yilmaz, Mehmet ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity; Bioassay; Cadmium; Cadmium chloride; LC50; Rana ridibunda

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; SALTS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TOXICITY;

PROBIT ANALYSIS;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS;

CADMIUM CHLORIDE; METAL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AMPHIBIAN; CADMIUM; CHLORIDE; TOXICITY;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOASSAY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EVALUATION; FROG; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LC 50; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANURA; RANA RIDIBUNDA;

EID: 0038029814     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(03)00262-5     Document Type: Article

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