A microcosm system to evaluate the toxicity of the triazine herbicide simazine on aquatic macrophytes

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 615-623

  Vervliet Scheebaum, Marco ^a   Straus, Alain ^a   Tremp, Horst ^b   Hamer, Mick ^c   Maund, Stephen J ^d   Wagner, Edgar ^a   Schulz, Ralf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b France   (Germany)

^c JEALOTT S HILL INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Herbicide; Macrophytes; Microcosms; Simazine; Single species

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; AQUATIC MACROPHYTES; ELODEA CANADENSIS; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; MACROPHYTES; MICROCOSM SYSTEM; MICROCOSM TESTS; MICROCOSMS; MYRIOPHYLLUM SPICATUM; SENSITIVE PARAMETER; SIMAZINE; TRIAZINE HERBICIDES;

ALGAE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); TOXICITY; WEED CONTROL;

HERBICIDES;

HERBICIDE; SIMAZINE; TRIAZINE DERIVATIVE;

AQUATIC PLANT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; HERBICIDE; MACROPHYTE; MICROCOSM; SIMAZINE; TOXICITY; TRIAZINE;

ALGA; AQUATIC FLORA; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; LABORATORY TEST; MACROPHYTE; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; PHYTOTOXICITY; PLANT GROWTH; POND; TOXICOKINETICS;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HERBICIDES; HYDROCHARITACEAE; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; PHYTOPLANKTON; POACEAE; POLYGONACEAE; SIMAZINE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TOXICITY TESTS;

ALGAE; ELODEA CANADENSIS; GLYCERIA MAXIMA; MYRIOPHYLLUM SPICATUM; PERSICARIA AMPHIBIA;

EID: 74249091506     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.08.005     Document Type: Article

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