Assessing the toxicity of betanal® on growth and sensitiveness of five freshwater planktonic species

Fresenius Environmental Bulletin

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 585-589

  Vidal, Tânia ^a   Gonçalves, Ana M M ^b   Pardal, Miguel A ^b   Azeiteiro, Ulisses M ^a   Gonçalves, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Acute immobilisation tests; Betanal expert ; Chemical tolerance; Daphnia sp.; EC50; Freshwater microalgae; Herbicide toxicity

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEAN; CUTICLE; FOOD WEB; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GREEN ALGA; GROWTH RATE; HERBICIDE; IMMOBILIZATION; MICROALGA; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION TOLERANCE; TOXICITY TEST; WEED CONTROL; ZOOPLANKTON;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLORELLA VULGARIS; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA LONGISPINA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; DAPHNIA SP.; INVERTEBRATA; KIRCHNERIELLA;

EID: 67949122087     PISSN: 10184619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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