Combined effects of copper and food on the midge Chironomus riparius in whole-sediment bioassays

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 99-107

  De Haas, Elske M ^a   Paumen, Miriam Léon ^a   Koelmans, Albert A ^b   Kraak, Michiel H S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chironomus riparius; Combined effects; Copper; Food; Toxicants

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; COPPER; ECOSYSTEMS; FOOD PRODUCTS; SEDIMENTS;

TEST ORGANISMS;

BIOASSAY;

COPPER;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOASSAY; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIOASSAY; BODY HEIGHT; CHIRONOMUS RIPARIUS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY WEIGHT; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING; FOOD; FOOD INTAKE; INVERTEBRATE; LARVA; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; SEDIMENT; SURVIVAL;

CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS RIPARIUS; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; DIPTERA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0141682599     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(03)00252-5     Document Type: Article

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