Toxicity of the aquaculture pesticide cypermethrin to planktonic marine copepods

Aquaculture Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 263-270

  Willis, Kate J ^a   Ling, Nicholas ^b  

^a SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Copepods; Cypermethrin; Early life stages; Pulse exposures; Salmon farming

Indexed keywords

CYPERMETHRIN; MARICULTURE; PESTICIDE; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; TOXICITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ACARTIA; ACARTIA CLAUSII; CALANOIDA; COPEPODA; CYCLOPOIDA; OITHONA; OITHONA SIMILIS; PHTHIRAPTERA; PSEUDOCALANUS ELONGATUS; TEMORA; TEMORA LONGICORNIS;

EID: 1242321529     PISSN: 1355557X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2109.2004.01008.x     Document Type: Article

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