Individual and combined toxicity of nitriles and aldehydes to Raphidocelis subcapitata

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1067-1073

  Chen, Chung Yuan ^a   Chen, Shih Lan ^a   Christensen, Erik R ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

Author keywords

Aldehyde mixture toxicity; Algae; Median lethal concentration; Raphidocelis subcapitata

Indexed keywords

ACETONITRILE; ADDITIVES; ALDEHYDES; DATA REDUCTION; OXYGEN; WATER;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN (DO); NITRILES; OCTANOL; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIPS (QSAR);

TOXICITY;

ALDEHYDE; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; NITRILE; OCTANOL; WATER;

ALGA; TOXICITY;

ALGA; ALGAL GROWTH; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; GROWTH RATE; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; RAPHIDOCELIS SUBCAPITATA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOXICITY; TOXICITY TESTING;

ALDEHYDES; ALGAE, GREEN; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; NITRILES; OXYGEN; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TOXICITY TESTS;

ALGAE; RAPHIDOCELIS; RAPHIDOCELIS SUBCAPITATA;

EID: 18244405579     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/04-147R.1     Document Type: Article

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