Screening the toxicity of Ni, Cd, Cu, ivermectin, and imidacloprid in a short-term automated behavioral toxicity test with tubifex tubifex (muller 1774) (Oligochaeta)

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 27-40

  Gerhardt, Almut ^a  

^a LimCo International   (Germany)

Author keywords

EC50; LC50; Locomotion; Multispecies freshwater biomonitor

Indexed keywords

ANNELIDA; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA); TUBIFEX TUBIFEX;

EID: 60849110580     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807030802614983     Document Type: Article

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