Avoidance tests with small fish: determination of the median avoidance concentration and of the lowest-observed-effect gradient

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1576-1582

  Moreira Santos, Matilde ^a   Donato, Cristina ^a   Lopes, Isabel ^a   Ribeiro, Rui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Acid mine drainage; Avoidance; Copper; Danio rerio; Test development

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); COPPER; DILUTION; DRAINAGE; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FISH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFETY ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL TESTS; TESTING;

ACID-MINE DRAINAGE (AMD); AVOIDANCE RESPONSE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONCENTRATION GRADIENT (CG); DANIO RERIO; ECOLOGICAL INFORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT (ERA); LINEAR FLOWS; TEST SYSTEMS; UNIFORMLY DISTRIBUTED;

GRADIENT METHODS;

COPPER;

AVOIDANCE REACTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COPPER; CYPRINID; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; MINE DRAINAGE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TESTING METHOD; TOXICITY TEST;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE TEST; CALIBRATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DILUTION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FLUID FLOW; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; COPPER; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 46949106365     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/07-094.1     Document Type: Article

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