Survivorship patterns of larval amphibians exposed to low concentrations of atrazine

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1054-1057

  Storrs, Sara I ^a,b   Kiesecker, Joseph M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Atrazine; Endocrine disruption; NMDRC; Nonmonotonic dose response curve

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE; DRINKING WATER;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BUFO; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EXPOSURE; FROG; LARVA; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDACRIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL; TADPOLE; TIME; TOAD; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER STANDARD;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; BUFO; BUFO AMERICANUS; PSEUDACRIS; PSEUDACRIS CRUCIFER; RANA CLAMITANS; RANA SYLVATICA;

EID: 3543088083     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6821     Document Type: Article

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