Toxicity of four nitrogen-heterocyclic polyaromatic hydrocarbons (NPAHs) to soil organisms

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 650-660

  Kobeticova K ^a   Bezchlebova J ^a   Lana J ^a   Sochova I ^a   Hofman, J ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Eisenia fetida; Enchytraeus crypticus; Folsomia candida; NPAHs ecotoxicity; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

1,10 PHENANTHROLINE; ACRIDINE; NITROGEN; PHENAZINE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; QUINOLINE;

ANNELID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EARTHWORM; ECOTOXICOLOGY; INSECT; NEMATODE; NITROGEN; PAH; POREWATER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TOXICITY TEST;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; EARTHWORM; ECOTOXICITY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL ORGANISM; SOIL POLLUTION; SURVIVAL; WATER ANALYSIS;

ACRIDINES; ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; INVERTEBRATES; NITROGEN; OLIGOCHAETA; PHENANTHROLINES; PHENAZINES; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; QUINOLINES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COLLEMBOLA; EISENIA FETIDA; ENCHYTRAEIDAE; ENCHYTRAEUS CRYPTICUS; FOLSOMIA CANDIDA; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 53049087713     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2008.01.019     Document Type: Article

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