Environmental behavior and ecotoxicity of engineered nanoparticles to algae, plants, and fungi

Ecotoxicology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 372-386

  Navarro, Enrique ^a,b   Baun, Anders ^c   Behra, Renata ^a   Hartmann, Nanna B ^c   Filser, Juliane ^d   Miao, Ai Jun ^e   Quigg, Antonietta ^e   Santschi, Peter H ^e   Sigg, Laura ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon black; Carbon nanotubes; Fullerenes; Nanoparticles; Organic matter; Silver nanoparticles; TiO2; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE; ORGANIC MATTER; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ALGA; BIOAVAILABILITY; BLACK CARBON; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FULLERENE; FUNGUS; ORGANIC MATTER; OXIDE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PLANT; TITANIUM; TOXICITY;

ALGA; ECOTOXICITY; FUNGUS; NANOENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PLANT; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; NANOPARTICLES; PLANTS;

ALGAE; FUNGI;

EID: 44449087556     PISSN: 09639292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10646-008-0214-0     Document Type: Review

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