Short-term effects of benzalkonium chloride and atrazine on Elodea canadensis using a miniaturised microbioreactor system for an online monitoring of physiologic parameters

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 254-262

  Vervliet Scheebaum, Marco ^a   Ritzenthaler, Raphael ^a   Normann, Johannes ^a   Wagner, Edgar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrazine; Benzalkonium chloride; Elodea canadensis; Fluorescence measurements; Macrophytes; Microbioreactor; Monitoring; Physiologic parameters

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE; BENZALKONIUM CHLORIDE; OXYGEN;

AQUATIC PLANT; ATRAZINE; BIOMONITORING; BIOREACTOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; INTERNET; LABORATORY METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OXYGEN; PERENNIAL PLANT; PHYSIOLOGY; TOXICITY; WEED;

ACUTE TOXICITY; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BIOREACTOR; BIOSENSOR; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELODEA CANADENSIS; ENERGY CONVERSION; FLUORESCENCE; MACROPHYTE; NONHUMAN; ONLINE MONITORING; PARAMETER; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POLLUTION MONITORING; QUANTUM YIELD; SCREENING; WEED;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; ATRAZINE; BENZALKONIUM COMPOUNDS; CHLOROPHYLL; FLUORESCENCE; HERBICIDES; HYDROCHARITACEAE; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; ONLINE SYSTEMS; OXYGEN; PLANT LEAVES; TOXICITY TESTS;

ELODEA CANADENSIS;

EID: 36549018609     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2007.02.001     Document Type: Article

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