Relating daily solar ultraviolet radiation dose in salt marsh-associated estuarine systems to laboratory assessments of photoactivated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon toxicity

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2860-2868

  Weinstein, John E ^a   Diamond, Stephen A ^b  

^a The Citadel ^*  (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Palaemonetes pugio; Photoinduced toxicity; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; Ultraviolet light

Indexed keywords

ESTUARIES; SOLAR RADIATION; TIDES; TOXICITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; PHOTOINDUCED TOXICITY; PHOTOTOXICITY;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; LIGHT EFFECT; PAH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALTMARSH; TOXICITY; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTUARY; HABITAT; LABORATORY TEST; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACTIVATION; PHOTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALT MARSH; SHRIMP; SOLAR RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; FLUORENES; LETHAL DOSE 50; PALAEMONIDAE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WETLANDS;

LEADENWAH CREEK; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PALAEMONETES PUGIO;

EID: 33846159468     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/06-034R.1     Document Type: Article

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