Chemical and biomonitoring to assess potential acute effects of Vision® herbicide on native amphibian larvae in forest wetlands

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 843-849

  Thompson, Dean G ^a   Wojtaszek, Barbara F ^b   Staznik, Bozena ^a   Chartrand, Derek T ^a   Stephenson, Gerald R ^b  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Ecotoxicology; Glyphosate; Vision; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; FORESTRY; PLANTS (BOTANY); WETLANDS;

BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; MORTALITY;

HERBICIDES;

BUFFER; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; HERBICIDE;

AMPHIBIAN; BIOMONITORING; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GLYPHOSATE; HERBICIDE; LARVA; WETLAND;

AMPHIBIA; ANALYTIC METHOD; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CANADA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOREST; FROG; HEALTH HAZARD; LARVA; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANA CLAMITANS; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GLYCINE; HERBICIDES; LARVA; MORTALITY; ONTARIO; RANA PIPIENS; RANIDAE; TREES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; RANA CLAMITANS; RANA PIPIENS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1842459412     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/02-280     Document Type: Conference Paper

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