Chronic toxicity of sediment-associated linear alkylbenzene sulphonates (LAS) to freshwater benthic organisms

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 661-668

  Comber, S D W ^a   Conrad, A U ^b   Hoss S ^c   Webb, S ^d   Marshall, S ^e  

^a WRC PLC   (United Kingdom)

^b Weinberg Group   (Belgium)

^c ECOSSA   (Germany)

^d Cefic   (Belgium)

^e UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis; Linear alkylbenzene sulphonates; Lumbriculus; Nematode; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; BIODIVERSITY; SEDIMENTS; TOXICITY;

CAENORHABDITIS; LINEAR ALKYLBENZENE SULPHONATES; LUMBRICULUS; NEMATODES;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

ALKYLBENZENE; FRESH WATER;

BENTHOS; EGG PRODUCTION; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; NEMATODE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SULFUR COMPOUND; SURFACTANT; TOXICITY;

ADSORPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIOASSAY; BIODEGRADATION; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG PRODUCTION; FERTILITY; HALF LIFE TIME; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LETHALITY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALKANESULFONIC ACIDS; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; OLIGOCHAETA; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY TESTS, CHRONIC; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; LUMBRICULUS; LUMBRICULUS VARIEGATUS;

EID: 33748563615     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2005.12.049     Document Type: Article

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