Influence of pH on the acute toxicity of ammonia to juvenile freshwater mussels (fatmucket, Lampsills siliquoidea)

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1141-1146

  Wang, Ning ^a   Erickson, Russell J ^b   Ingersoll, Christopher G ^a   Ivey, Christopher D ^a   Brunson, Eric L ^a   Augspurger, Tom ^c   Barnhart, M Christopher ^d  

^a Jackson Field Research Station   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

^d MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Juvenile mussels; pH; Unionidae; Water quality criteria

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); PH EFFECTS; TOXICITY; WATER QUALITY;

AMMONIA TOXICITY; JUVENILE MUSSELS; WATER QUALITY CRITERION (WQC);

AMMONIA;

AMMONIA; NITROGEN;

AMMONIA; AMPHIPOD; BENTHOS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; JUVENILE; MOLLUSC; NUMERICAL MODEL; PH; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOXICITY TEST; WATER QUALITY;

ACUTE TOXICITY; AMPHIPODA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; INVERTEBRATE; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER QUALITY;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION;

AMPHIPODA; HYALELLA AZTECA; INVERTEBRATA; LAMPSILIS SILIQUOIDEA; LUMBRICULUS VARIEGATUS; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA); UNIONIDAE;

EID: 43649083465     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/07-193.1     Document Type: Article

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