Predicting and observing responses of algal communities to photosystem II-herbicide exposure using pollution-induced community tolerance and species-sensitivity distributions

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 304-312

  Schmitt Jansen, Mechthild ^a   Altenburger, Rolf ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrazine; Environmental risk assessment; Isoproturon; Periphyton; Prometryn

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEMS; HERBICIDES; POLLUTION; REDUNDANCY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOXICITY;

ATRAZINE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; POLLUTION-INDUCED COMMUNITY TOLERANCE CONCEPT (PICT); SPECIES-SENSITIVITY DISTRIBUTION (SSD);

BIODIVERSITY;

ATRAZINE; HERBICIDE; ISOPROTURON; PROMETRYN;

ALGAL COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; HERBICIDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION TOLERANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ALGA; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYSTEM II; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION;

ALGAE; ATRAZINE; BIOMASS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HERBICIDES; LETHAL DOSE 50; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ALGAE;

EID: 12344256941     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/03-647.1     Document Type: Article

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