Isopod reproduction as a tool for sublethal-toxicity tests

Israel Journal of Zoology

Volumn 44, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 445-450

  Hornung, Elisabeth ^a   Fischer, Ernö ^b   Farkas, Sandor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 11344262649     PISSN: 00212210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Dallinger, R., Berger, B., and Birkel, S. 1992. Terrestrial isopods: useful biological indicators of metal pollution. Oecologia 89: 32-41.
2. Donker, M.H., van Capelleveen, H.E., and van Straalen, N.M. 1993. Metal contamination affects size-structure and life-history dynamics in isopod field populations. In: Dallinger, R. and Rainbow, P., eds. Ecotoxicology of metals in invertebrates. Lewis Publ., Boca Raton, FL, pp. 383-399.
3. Drobne, D. and Hopkin, S.P. 1994. Ecotoxicological laboratory test for assessing the affects of chemicals on terrestrial isopods. Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 53: 390-397.
4. Drobne, D. and Hopkin, S. P. 1995. The toxicity of zinc to terrestrial isopods in a "standard" laboratory test. Ecotoxicol. Environ. Safety 31: 1-6.
5. Farkas, S., Hornung, E., and Fischer, E. 1996. Toxicity of copper to Porcellio scaber Latr. (Isopoda) under different nutritional status. Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 57: 582-588.
6. Eijsackers, H. 1978. Side effects of the herbicide 2,4,5-T affecting the isopod Philoscia muscorum Scopoli. Z., Angew. Entomol. 87: 28-52.
7. Hopkin, S.P. 1989. Ecophysiology of metals in terrestrial invertebrates. Elsevier Applied Sciences, Barking, UK.
8. Hopkin, S.P. 1990. Species specific differences in the net assimilation of zinc, cadmium, lead, copper and iron by the terrestrial isopods Oniscus asellus and Porcellio scaber. J. Appl. Ecol. 27: 460-474.
9. Hopkin, S.P. and Hames, C.A.C. 1994. Zinc, among the "cocktail" of metal pollutants, is responsible for the absence of the terrestrial isopods Porcellio scaber from the vicinity of a primary smelting works. Ecotoxicology 2: 68-78.
10. Hopkin, S.P., Hardisty, G.N., and Martin, M.H. 1986. The woodlouse Porcellio scaber as a 'biological indicator' of zinc, cadmium, lead and copper pollution. Environ. Pollut. 11B: 271-290.
11. Hopkin, S.P. Jones, D.T., and Dietrich, D. 1993. The isopod Porcellio scaber as a monitor of the bioavailability of metals in terrestrial ecosystems: towards a global "woodlouse watch" scheme. In: The science of the total environment. Suppl: 357-365.
12. Hornung, E. and Warburg, M.R. 1993. Breeding pattern in the oniscid isopod, Porcellio ficulneus Verh., at high temperature and under different photophases. Invertebr. Reprod. Devel. 23: 151-158.
13. Hornung, E. and Warburg, M.R. 1994. Oosorption and oocyte loss in a terrestrial isopod under stressful conditions. Tissue Cell 26: 277-284.
14. Hornung, E., Fischer, E., and Farkas, S. 1998. Tests on the isopod: Porcellio scaber. In: Lokke, H. and van Gestel, C.A.M., eds. Handbook of soil invertebrate toxicity tests: new test systems for assessing sublethal effects of chemicals on the fauna in the soil ecosystem. Ecological & Environmental Toxicity (EET) Series. John Wiley, Chichester, pp. 207-226.
15. Snider, R.M. 1979. The effects of azinphosmethyl (Guthion®) on a population of Trachelipus rathkei (Isopoda) in a Michigan orchard. Pedobiologia 19: 99-105.
16. Stebbing, A.R.D. 1982. Hormesis - the stimulation of growth by low levels of inhibitors. Sci. Total Environ. 22: 213-234.
17. Wieser, W., Busch, G., and Büchel, L. 1976. Isopods as indicators of the copper content of soil and litter. Oecologia 23: 107-114.