Single and interactive effects of malathion, overwintered green frog tadpoles, and cyanobacteria on gray treefrog tadpoles

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 637-643

  Mackey, Mark J ^a   Boone, Michelle D ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anabaena; Hyla chrysoscelis; Malathion; Multiple stressors

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN POPULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GREEN FROGS; HABITAT DESTRUCTION; INTERACTIVE EFFECT; INVASIVE SPECIES; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MESOCOSMS; MULTIPLE STRESSORS; NON-ADDITIVE; PERIPHYTONS;

COMPETITION;

MALATHION; INSECTICIDE; WATER;

CYANOBACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FROG; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MALATHION; METAMORPHOSIS; OVERWINTERING; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FROG; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MESOCOSM; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PERIPHYTON; POLLUTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TADPOLE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FROGS AND TOADS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; PREDATION; SEASON;

AMPHIBIA; ANABAENA; CYANOBACTERIA; HYLA; HYLA CHRYSOSCELIS; HYLA VERSICOLOR; RANA CLAMITANS;

ANIMALS; ANURA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CYANOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; MALATHION; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEASONS; WATER;

EID: 66649110085     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/08-232.1     Document Type: Article

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