Responses of aquatic invertebrates to a linear alcohol ethoxylate surfactant in stream mesocosms

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 215-221

  Gillespie Jr , William B ^b   Rodgers Jr , John H ^b   Dorn, Philip B ^a  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aquatic invertebrates; Nonionic surfactants; Stream mesocosms

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; SURFACTANT;

AQUATIC ORGANISM; DRIFT BEHAVIOR; INVERTEBRATE; POLLUTION EFFECT; SURFACTANT;

AQUATIC FAUNA; ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPEPOD; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; POPULATION DENSITY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; COPEPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0344701089     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/eesa.1998.1713     Document Type: Article

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