Field validation of sediment zinc toxicity

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 541-553

  Burton Jr , G Allen ^a   Nguyen, Lien T H ^b   Janssen, Colin ^b   Baudo, Renato ^c   McWilliam, Ruth ^a   Bossuyt, Bart ^b   Beltrami, Monica ^c   Green, Andrew ^d  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c CNR Ist Stud degli Ecosistemi   (Italy)

^d INTERNATIONAL LEAD ZINC RESEARCH ORGANIZATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Acid volatile sulfides; Colonization; In situ; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

LAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENTS; WATER; ZINC;

ACID VOLATILE SULFIDE (AVS); BENTHIC COMMUNITY; BENTHIC METRICS; SIMULTANEOUSLY EXTRACTED METAL (SEM);

TOXICITY;

FRESH WATER; METAL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SULFIDE; VOLATILE AGENT; ZINC;

FRESHWATER SEDIMENT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; SULFIDE; TOXICITY; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVALUATION; FIELD EXPERIMENT; INVERTEBRATE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MACROBENTHOS; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; TOXICITY TESTING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACIDS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INVERTEBRATES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; RIVERS; SULFIDES; VOLATILIZATION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZINC;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 13944262095     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/04-031R.1     Document Type: Article

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