A Daphnia magna feeding bioassay as a cost effective and ecological relevant sublethal toxicity test for Environmental Risk Assessment of toxic effluents

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 405, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 78-86

  Barata, C ^a,b   Alanon P ^b   Gutierrez Alonso, S ^c   Riva, M C ^b   Fernandez C ^c   Tarazona, J V ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c INIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Daphnia magna; Effluent; Feeding; Organic carbon; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ARID REGIONS; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOASSAY; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FEEDING; MIXTURES; PHYTOPLANKTON; POLLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SEWAGE; SURFACE DISCHARGES; SURFACE WATERS; TESTING; TOXICITY; WATER POLLUTION;

ACUTE TOXICITY TEST; ALGAE GROWTH; AMERICA; AVERAGE SENSITIVITY; BIOLUMINESCENT BACTERIA; CHEMICAL MIXTURES; CHEMICAL PRODUCTS; CHEMICAL-; CONTAMINANT MIXTURES; DAPHNIA MAGNA; ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS; EFFLUENT; EFFLUENT DISCHARGES; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT; FEEDING INHIBITION; HARD WATER; ORGANIC CARBON; SUB-LETHAL TOXICITY; SUM MER MONTHS; TOXIC EFFLUENTS; TOXICITY TESTING; TREATED EFFLUENTS; WATER TYPE; WATER TYPES;

EFFLUENTS;

PESTICIDE; SURFACE WATER; WATER;

ALGA; ARID REGION; BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRUSTACEAN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; INHIBITION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEWAGE TREATMENT; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TOXICITY TEST;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ALGAL GROWTH; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DAPHNIA; DILUTION; FEEDING; FISH; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SUMMER; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER HARDNESS; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; DAPHNIA; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; DAPHNIA MAGNA;

EID: 52949135890     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.06.028     Document Type: Article

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