Response of the zooplankton community and environmental fate of perfluorooctane sulfonic acid in aquatic microcosms

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2739-2745

  Boudreau, Timothy M ^a   Wilson, Christian J ^a   Cheong, Woo Jay ^b   Sibley, Paul K ^a   Mabury, Scott A ^b   Muir, Derek C G ^c   Solomon, Keith R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community response; Microcosm; Perfluorooctane sulfonic acid; Persistence; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WATER;

FRESHWATER ORGANISMS;

TOXICITY;

PERFLUOROOCTANE; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; MICROCOSM; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; ZOOPLANKTON;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CLADOCERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPEPOD; DEGRADATION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; MICROCOSM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER POLLUTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ALKANESULFONIC ACIDS; ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; FLUOROCARBONS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALIA; CLADOCERA; COPEPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LEMNA; LEMNA GIBBA;

EID: 0141668937     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/02-394     Document Type: Article

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