Responses of Fathead Minnows (Pimephales Promelas) during life-cycle exposures to pulp mill effluents at four long-term receiving water study sites

Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 270-282

  Borton, Dennis L ^a   Cook, Diana L ^a   Bradley, W Kenneth ^a   Philbeck, Raymond E ^a   Dube, Monique G ^b   Brown Peterson, Nancy J ^c   Streblow, William R ^a  

^a NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR AIR AND STREAM IMPROVEMENT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioindicators; Fathead minnow; Life cycle; Pulp mill effluent; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYPRINIFORMES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PAPER; PHYSIOLOGY; RIVER; SEWAGE; UNITED STATES; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; CYPRINIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MALE; PAPER; RIVERS; UNITED STATES; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 63849243003     PISSN: 15513793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/IEAM_2008-059.1     Document Type: Article

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