As the Worm Turns: Eisenia fetida Avoids Soil Contaminated by a Glyphosate-Based Herbicide

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 219-224

  Verrell, P ^a   Van Buskirk, E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYPHOSATE; HERBICIDE;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EARTHWORM; ECOLOGY; EISENIA FOETIDA; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; RANDOMIZATION; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL POLLUTION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; GLYCINE; HERBICIDES; LOCOMOTION; OLIGOCHAETA; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EISENIA FETIDA; PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI;

EID: 0842327317     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-003-9134-0     Document Type: Article

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