Zinc sulfate and atrazine toxicity to the marine harpacticoid copepod Robertsonia propinqua

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 93-98

  Hack, Lisa A ^a,b,c,d   Tremblay, Louis A ^c,d   Wratten, Steve D ^a   Forrester, Guy ^c,d   Keesing, Vaughan ^b  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b BOFFA MISKELL LTD   (New Zealand)

^c LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^d LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

96 hLC50; Bioindicator; Contaminants; Estuaries; New Zealand

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; ATRAZINE; BIOINDICATOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRUSTACEAN; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; MARINE SEDIMENT; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SULFATE; SURVIVAL; TOXICITY TEST; ZINC;

COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA; HARPACTICOIDA; ROBERTSONIA PROPINQUA;

EID: 42949113026     PISSN: 00288330     EISSN: 11758805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288330809509939     Document Type: Article

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