Using rotifer population demographic parameters to assess impacts of the degradation products from trinitrotoluene phytoremediation

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 143-151

  Hitchcock, D R ^a,c   McCutcheon, S C ^b   Smith, M C ^a  

^a University of Georgia   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Algae; Ecotoxicology; Life tables; Phytoremediation; Rotifers; TNT

Indexed keywords

AMINODINITROTOLUENE; AROMATIC NITRO COMPOUND; TRINITROTOLUENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGA; BIOREMEDIATION; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; ECOTOXICOLOGY; LIFE TABLE; TRINITROTOLUENE; ZOOPLANKTON;

AQUATIC FAUNA; AQUATIC FLORA; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; CONTINUOUS FLOW REACTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOTOXICITY; FERTILITY; GROWTH RATE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLE; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; PHYTOREMEDIATION; PLANT; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; ROTIFERA; SURVIVAL; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER CONTAMINATION; WETLAND;

ALGAE; BRACHIONUS; BRACHIONUS CALYCIFLORUS; COPEPODA; MYRIOPHYLLUM; MYRIOPHYLLUM AQUATICUM; NANNOCHLOROPSIS; PSITTACIDAE; ROTIFERA;

EID: 0038030024     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0147-6513(03)00007-1     Document Type: Article

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