Toxicity assessment of oil-contaminated freshwater sediments

Environmental Toxicology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 267-273

  Blaise, Christian ^a   Gagné, François ^a   Chèvre, Nathalie ^a   Harwood, Manon ^a   Lee, Ken ^b   Lappalainen, Juha ^c   Chial, Belgis ^d   Persoone, Guido ^d   Doe, Ken ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Algal solid phase assay; Biotox Flash test; Freshwater sediments; Hyalella azteca bioassay; Microtox assay; Oil contamination; Ostracodtoxkit assay; Remediation treatment; Toxicity assessment; Whole sediment bioassays

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; DATA REDUCTION; SEDIMENTS; TOXICITY; WATER POLLUTION; WETLANDS;

PHYTOPLANKTONS; TOXICITY ASSESSMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

FRESH WATER; OIL;

BIOASSAY; BIOREMEDIATION; CRUDE OIL; FRESHWATER SEDIMENT; OIL POLLUTION; TOXICITY TEST;

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BIOREMEDIATION; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ECOTOXICITY; INVERTEBRATE; LUMINESCENCE; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER CONTAMINATION; WETLAND;

ALGAE, GREEN; AMPHIPODA; ANIMALS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CHEMILUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; CRUSTACEA; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PETROLEUM; PHYTOPLANKTON; QUEBEC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RIVERS; TIME FACTORS; VIBRIO; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC; SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER;

ALGAE; AMPHIPODA; AZTECA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HYALELLA; HYALELLA AZTECA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 4444326486     PISSN: 15204081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tox.20026     Document Type: Article

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