Effects of temperature and oxygen concentration in sediment toxicity testing

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 475-482

  Airas, Sari ^a   Leppänen, Matti ^a   Kukkonen, Jussi V K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Chironomus; Emergence; Feeding rate; Joint effects; Lumbriculus; O2; Sex ratio; Temperature

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN;

ANNELID; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; EMERGENCE; FEEDING; GROWTH RATE; OXYGEN; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOXICITY TEST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHIRONOMUS RIPARIUS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEEDING; FEMALE; FLY; GROWTH; LOW TEMPERATURE; LUMBRICULUS VARIEGATUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN SATURATION; POLLUTION; REPRODUCTION; SEDIMENT; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; ARSENIC; CHIRONOMIDAE; DIOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FINLAND; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MALE; METALS, HEAVY; OLIGOCHAETA; OXYGEN; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; TEMPERATURE; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CHIRONOMUS RIPARIUS; DIPTERA; LUMBRICULUS; LUMBRICULUS VARIEGATUS;

EID: 43649084949     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2007.06.004     Document Type: Article

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