Ecotoxicity of wastes in avoidance tests with Enchytraeus albidus, Enchytraeus crypticus and Eisenia fetida (Oligochaeta)

Waste Management

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 558-564

  Kobetičová, Klára ^a   Hofman, Jakub ^a   Holoubek, Ivan ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE TESTS; CONTAMINATED SOILS; DOSE-RESPONSE CURVES; EARTHWORM EISENIA FETIDA; ECOTOXICITY; EISENIA FETIDA; ENCHYTRAEIDS; ENCHYTRAEUS ALBIDUS; ENCHYTRAEUS CRYPTICUS; OLIGOCHAETA; REPRODUCTION TESTS; SENSITIVE SPECIES; SHORT DURATIONS; SOIL INVERTEBRATES; SOLID MATERIAL; TEST BATTERIES; WASTE MIXTURES; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOOD CHIP;

ASHES; MATERIALS TESTING; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS; TOXICITY; WASTE INCINERATION; WOOD PRODUCTS;

TESTING;

AVOIDANCE REACTION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; EARTHWORM; ECOTOXICOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; POLLUTION EFFECT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOXICITY;

ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; ASH; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BIOASSAY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARTHWORM; ECOTOXICITY; INCINERATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SOIL POLLUTION; SOLID WASTE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOOD CHIP;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BODY WEIGHT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; OLIGOCHAETA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOXICITY TESTS;

COMBUSTION; MATERIALS TESTING; POLLUTION; SOIL; TESTING; TOXICITY; WOOD PRODUCTS;

EISENIA FETIDA; ENCHYTRAEIDAE; ENCHYTRAEUS ALBIDUS; ENCHYTRAEUS CRYPTICUS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 75849162810     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2009.11.024     Document Type: Article

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