Water quality and macroinvertebrate community response following pesticide applications in a banana plantation, Limon, Costa Rica

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 367, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 418-432

  Castillo, Luisa Eugenia ^a,b   Martínez, Eduardo ^a   Ruepert, Clemens ^a   Savage, Candida ^b,d   Gilek, Michael ^b,c   Pinnock, Margareth ^a   Solis, Efrain ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Aquatic ecosystems; Banana plantations; Macroinvertebrates; Multivariate analysis; Pesticides; Toxicity tests

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDES; PLANTS (BOTANY); TOXICITY; WATER QUALITY;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; BANANA PLANTATIONS; MACROINVERTEBRATES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; TOXICITY TESTS;

CROPS;

ANTINEMATODAL AGENT; CARBOFURAN; CHLORPYRIFOS; ENILCONAZOLE; PESTICIDE; PROPICONAZOLE; SURFACE WATER; TERBUFOS; TIABENDAZOLE;

BENTHOS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; TOXICITY TEST; WATER QUALITY;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; COELENTERATE; COSTA RICA; CRUSTACEA; DAPHNIA; EFFLUENT; LC 50; MACROBENTHOS; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOLID WASTE; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; COSTA RICA; FRESH WATER; INVERTEBRATES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSA; PESTICIDE RESIDUES; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

BIOCIDES; FARM CROPS; PLANTS; TOXICITY; WATER QUALITY;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; LIMON;

CAENIDAE; CAENIS; COSTA (OSTRACODE); CRUSTACEA; DAPHNIA; ELMIDAE; HETERAGRION; HETERELMIS; HYDRA; MEGAPODAGRIONIDAE; ODONATA; SMICRIDEA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 33746017428     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2006.02.052     Document Type: Article

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