Acute toxicity of the pesticide Dichlorvos and the herbicide butachlor to tadpoles of four anuran species

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 343-349

  Geng, B R ^a   Yao, D ^a   Xue, Q Q ^a  

^a FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTOCLOR; DICHLORVOS; HERBICIDE; PESTICIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE TOXICITY; AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; LC 50; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; POPULATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES; TADPOLE; TOXICITY TESTING;

ACETANILIDES; ANIMALS; ANURA; DICHLORVOS; HERBICIDES; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; LETHAL DOSE 50;

AMPHIBIA;

EID: 26644475209     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: 14320800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-005-0759-z     Document Type: Article

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