Hierarchical responses of soil invertebrates (earthworms) to toxic metal stress

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 5327-5334

  Spurgeon, David J ^a   Ricketts, Huw ^b   Svendsen, Claus ^a   Morgan, A John ^b   Kille, Peter ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; GENES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOILS; STRESS ANALYSIS; TOXICITY;

COELOMOCYTE LYSOSOMAL MEMBRANE; EARTHWORMS; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS; SOIL INVERTEBRATES;

ECOLOGY;

METAL; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

EARTHWORM; HEAVY METAL; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EARTHWORM; FEEDING; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL ANALYSIS; STRESS; TAXONOMY; TOXICITY;

ANIMALS; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; FORECASTING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; OLIGOCHAETA; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; ZINC;

INVERTEBRATA; PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI;

EID: 22344434798     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es050033k     Document Type: Article

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