Effect of temperature on heavy metal toxicity to earthworm Lumbricus terrestris (Annelida: Oligochaeta)

Environmental Toxicology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 487-494

  Khan, M A Q ^a   Ahmed, S A ^a   Salazar, A ^b   Gurumendi, J ^b   Khan, A ^a   Vargas, M ^b   Von Catalin, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b One of the City Colleges of Chicago   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthworm; Heavy metals; Respiration; Temperature; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEHYDRATION; HEAVY METALS; HEMOGLOBIN; METABOLISM; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BASAL RATE; HABITAT TEMPERATURE; OXYGEN AFFINITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

TOXICITY;

CADMIUM; CARBON MONOXIDE; COPPER; HEMOGLOBIN; LEAD; ZINC;

ACCLIMATION; BLOOD; EARTHWORM; HEAVY METAL; HEMOGLOBIN; HIGH TEMPERATURE; METABOLISM; OXIC CONDITIONS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RESPIRATION; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOXICITY;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ACUTE TOXICITY; AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HABITAT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYPOVOLEMIA; LUMBRICUS TERRESTRIS; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN AFFINITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ANIMALS; HEMOGLOBINS; LETHAL DOSE 50; METALS, HEAVY; OLIGOCHAETA; OXYGEN; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TEMPERATURE;

ANNELIDA; LUMBRICUS TERRESTRIS; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA);

EID: 34548722179     PISSN: 15204081     EISSN: 15227278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tox.20288     Document Type: Article

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