Short and long term toxicity of crude oil and oil dispersants to two representative coral species

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 5571-5574

  Shafir, Shai ^a,b   Van Rijn, Jaap ^b   Rinkevich, Baruch ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; TOXICITY; ASSAYS; CRUDE OIL; MARINE POLLUTION; OIL SPILLS; REEFS; SOAPS (DETERGENTS);

DISPERSED OIL FRACTIONS; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL; MORTALITY;

CRUDE PETROLEUM; ECOLOGY;

OIL DISPERSANT; PETROLEUM;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CRUDE PETROLEUM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; TOXICITY;

CORAL REEF; CRUDE OIL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; ECOTOXICOLOGY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OIL SPILL RESPONSE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SOFT CORAL; SURVIVORSHIP; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; CORAL; ECOTOXICITY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OIL SPILL; POCILLOPORA DAMICORNIS; SPECIES; STYLOPHORA PISTILLATA; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; PETROLEUM; SOLUTIONS; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TOXICITY TESTS;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANTHOZOA; POCILLOPORA DAMICORNIS; STYLOPHORA PISTILLATA;

CORAL REEF; DISPERSANT CONCENTRATION; DISPERSANTS; EARLY LIFE; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL; EGYPTIANS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE LIFE; OIL DISPERSANT; OIL FRACTIONS; PETROTECH; PISTILLATA; REEF CORALS;

EID: 34547652404     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0704582     Document Type: Article

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