Acute toxicity of copper, ammonia, and chlorine to glochidia and juveniles of freshwater mussels (Unionidae)

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2036-2047

  Wang, Ning ^a   Ingersoll, Christopher G ^a   Hardesty, Douglas K ^a   Ivey, Christopher D ^a   Kunz, James L ^a   May, Thomas W ^a   Dwyer, F James ^b   Roberts, Andy D ^b   Augspurger, Tom ^c   Kane, Cynthia M ^d   Neves, Richard J ^e   Barnhart, M Chris ^f  

^a Jackson Field Research Station   (United States)

^b US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

^c US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

^d US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

^e VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity; Freshwater mussels; Glochidia; Juvenile mussels; Water quality criteria

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BIODIVERSITY; CHLORINE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); TOXICITY; WATER QUALITY;

ACUTE TOXICITY; FRESHWATER MUSSELS; GLOCHIDIA; JUVENILE MUSSELS;

COPPER;

AMMONIA; CHLORINE; COPPER;

AMMONIA; AMPHIPOD; BIVALVE; CHLORINE; COPPER; FRESHWATER; JUVENILE; LARVA; PARASITE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SALMONID; TOXICITY; TOXICITY TEST; WATER QUALITY;

ACUTE TOXICITY; AMPHIPODA; ARTICLE; CLADOCERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAPHNIA; FEMALE; FISH; GLOCHIDIA; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAINBOW TROUT; TOXICITY TESTING; UNIONIDAE; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER QUALITY;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; CHLORINE; COPPER; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CERIODAPHNIA DUBIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; GLOCHIDIA; HYALELLA AZTECA; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; UNIONIDAE;

EID: 35348817281     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/06-523R.1     Document Type: Article

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