Passive dosing of soil invertebrates with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: Limited chemical activity explains toxicity cutoff

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 7516-7521

  Mayer, Philipp ^a   Holmstrup, Martin ^b  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; HYDROCARBONS; MELTING POINT; MICROCHANNELS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SILICONES; SOILS; THERMOCHEMISTRY; TOXICITY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLLUTION;

CHEMICAL ACTIVITIES; DIRECT CONTACTS; FOLSOMIA CANDIDA; MOLECULAR SIZES; OCTANOL-WATER PARTITION COEFFICIENTS; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; SATURATED AIR; SOIL INVERTEBRATES; SOIL ORGANISMS; TOXICITY TESTING;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

ANTHRACENE; DIMETICONE; OCTANOL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PYRENE; SILICONE; WATER;

CHEMICAL REACTION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; INSECT; INVERTEBRATE; MORTALITY; PAH; TOXICITY;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL; FOLSOMIA CANDIDA; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; POLLUTANT; SOIL INVERTEBRATE; SOIL ORGANISM; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; INVERTEBRATES; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; SOIL; SOLUBILITY; TOXICITY TESTS; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; WATER;

ANIMALIA; FOLSOMIA CANDIDA; INVERTEBRATA;

CHEMICAL ACTIVITIES; DIRECT CONTACT; FOLSOMIA CANDIDA; HIGH-MELTING; MOLECULAR SIZE; OCTANOL-WATER PARTITION COEFFICIENT; ORGANIC SOIL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS(PAHS); POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; RESPONSE CURVES; SATURATED AIR; SOIL INVERTEBRATES; SOIL ORGANISMS; TOXICITY TEST;

EID: 54749136995     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es801689y     Document Type: Article

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