Effects of the pesticides captan, deltamethrin, isoproturon, and pirimicarb on the microbial community of a freshwater sediment

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1920-1927

  Widenfalk, Anneli ^a   Svensson, Jonas M ^b   Goedkoop, Willem ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bacterial activity; Denitrification; Microbial communities; Natural sediment; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOMASS; DENITRIFICATION; FUNGICIDES; HEALTH HAZARDS; HERBICIDES; TOXICITY;

MICROBIAL BIOMASS; TOXIC RESPONSES;

TOXIC MATERIALS;

CAPTAN; DELTAMETHRIN; FRESH WATER; ISOPROTURON; PERMETHRIN; PESTICIDE; PIRIMICARB; RIVER WATER;

DENITRIFICATION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PESTICIDE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BREATHING; DENITRIFICATION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPOSURE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROCOSM; MICROFLORA; MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING; SEDIMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

BACTERIA; BIOMASS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; OXYGEN; PESTICIDES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 3442883334     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/03-345     Document Type: Article

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