Copper sensitivity of wild ornamental fish of the Amazon

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 693-698

  Duarte, Rafael Mendonça ^a   Menezes, Ana Cristina Leite ^a   da Silveira Rodrigues, Leonardo ^a   de Almeida Val, Vera Maria Fonseca ^a   Val, Adalberto Luis ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon; Catfish; Characids; Cichlids; Copper sensitivity; LC50; Ornamental fish; Rio Negro

Indexed keywords

COPPER; COPPER CHLORIDE; GROUND WATER; ION; ORGANIC CARBON; RIVER WATER;

BIOACCUMULATION; COPPER COMPOUND; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FISH; MORTALITY; ORNAMENTAL SPECIES; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; TOXICITY TEST; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CATFISH; CICHLID; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DISSOLUTION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; INTOXICATION; LC 50; NONHUMAN; ORNAMENTAL SPECIES; PHYSIOLOGY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RIVER; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES HABITAT;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; COPPER; FISH DISEASES; PERCIFORMES; RIVERS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

RIO NEGRO [URUGUAY]; SOUTH AMERICA; URUGUAY;

CHARACIDAE; CICHLIDAE; DIANEMA UROSTRIATA; HEMIGRAMMUS RHODOSTOMUS; HYPHESSOBRYCON;

EID: 59149100946     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2008.10.003     Document Type: Article

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