Toxicity of anti-fouling paints for use on ships and leisure boats to non-target organisms representing three trophic levels

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 681-687

  Karlsson, Jenny ^a   Ytreberg, Erik ^a   Eklund, Britta ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Baltic sea; Ceramium; Crustacean; Macroalga; Nitocra

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AGENTS; BALTIC SEA; BIOLOGICAL TESTS; CERAMIUM TENUICORNE; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL POTENTIALS; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; LEACHATES; LEISURE BOATS; MACRO ALGAE; NON-TARGET ORGANISM; TROPHIC LEVEL; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

BIOCIDES; BOATS; LEACHING; SEAWATER; SHIPS; TOXICITY; ZINC;

PAINT;

ANTIFOULING AGENT; BIOCIDE; COPPER; PAINT; SEA WATER; ZINC;

ANTIFOULING AGENT; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COPPER; CRUSTACEAN; ECOTOXICOLOGY; LEACHATE; MACROALGA; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PESTICIDE; SHIPPING; TOXICITY; TOXICITY TEST; ZINC;

ALGAL GROWTH; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSTACEA; GROWTH INHIBITION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LEACHING; MACROALGA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SHIP; TOXICITY TESTING; TOXIN ANALYSIS; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

ALGAE; ANIMALS; CRUSTACEA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PAINT; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; VIBRIO FISCHERI; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CERAMIUM; CERAMIUM TENUICORNE; CRUSTACEA; NITOCRA; NITOCRA SPINIPES; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

EID: 74149091379     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.10.024     Document Type: Article

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