Porewater as a matrix in toxicity bioassays with sea urchins and bivalves: Evaluation of applicability to the Venice lagoon (Italy)

Environment International

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 118-126

  Losso, Chiara ^a   Novelli, Alessandra Arizzi ^a   Picone, Marco ^a   Ghetti, Pier Francesco ^a   Ghirardini, Annamaria Volpi ^a  

^a CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Embryotoxicity test; Sperm cell toxicity test; Venice Lagoon

Indexed keywords

LAKES; MAMMALS; SHELLFISH;

CRASSOSTREA GIGAS; EMBRYOTOXICITY TEST; MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS; SEA URCHIN EMBRYOS; SEDIMENT TOXICITY; SPERM CELL TOXICITY TEST; TOXICITY TEST; VENICE LAGOON;

TOXICITY;

AMMONIA; SULFIDE;

AMMONIA; BIOASSAY; BIVALVE; ECHINODERM; EMBRYO; POREWATER; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SULFIDE; TOXICITY TEST;

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BIVALVE; CENTRIFUGATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EMBRYO; EMBRYOTOXICITY; EXTRACTION; ITALY; LAGOON; MYTILUS; NONHUMAN; OYSTER; PARACENTROTUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA URCHIN; SEDIMENT; SPERM; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VENETO; VENEZIA [VENETO]; VENICE LAGOON;

BIVALVIA; CRASSOSTREA GIGAS; ECHINOIDEA; MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS; PARACENTROTUS LIVIDUS;

EID: 57049171870     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2008.09.010     Document Type: Article

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