Interactive effect of salinity decrease, salinity adaptation, and chlorpyrifos exposure on an estuarine harpacticoid copepod, Mesochra parva, in South Africa

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 756-764

  Bollmohr, S ^a,b   Schulz, R ^b   Hahn, T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR TOXICOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chlorpyrifos; Osmoregulation; Pesticide; Runoff event; Sediment; Temporarily open estuary; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

CHLORPYRIFOS; FRESH WATER;

CHLORPYRIFOS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRUSTACEAN; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; OSMOREGULATION; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SALINITY; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; COPEPOD; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESTUARINE SPECIES; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; FRESHWATER SPECIES; HYPOOSMOTIC STRESS; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MESOCHRA PARVA; NONHUMAN; RIVER; SALINITY; SEDIMENT; SOUTH AFRICA; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CHLORPYRIFOS; COPEPODA; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LONGEVITY; MALE; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PESTICIDES; RIVERS; SALINITY; SEX FACTORS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AFRICA; LOURENS ESTUARY; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

COPEPODA; HARPACTICOIDA; MESOCHRA PARVA;

EID: 59349095915     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2008.08.003     Document Type: Article

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