The effect of lead-contaminated soil from Canadian prairie skeet ranges on the neutral red retention assay and fecundity in the earthworm Eisenia fetida

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2446-2453

  Booth, Lynn ^a,b   Palasz, Fil ^c   Darling, Colin ^d   Lanno, Roman ^b   Wickstrom, Mark ^c  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Bioavailability; Earthworms; Lead; Neutral red retention time; Shooting range

Indexed keywords

ASSAYS; CONTAMINATION; LEAD; SOILS;

SPIKED SOILS;

TOXICITY;

LEAD ACETATE; NEUTRAL RED;

ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EARTHWORM; EISENIA FOETIDA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXTRACTION; FERTILITY; LABORATORY TEST; LYSOSOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL PROPERTY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; CANADA; COLORING AGENTS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FIREARMS; LEAD; LYSOSOMES; MALE; NEUTRAL RED; OLIGOCHAETA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EISENIA FETIDA; INVERTEBRATA; PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI;

EID: 0141513790     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/02-582     Document Type: Article

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