Evaluation of acute copper toxicity to juvenile freshwater mussels (fatmucket, lampsilis siliquoidea) in natural and reconstituted waters

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2367-2377

  Wang, Ning ^a   Mebane, Christopher A ^b   Kunz, James L ^a   Ingersoll, Christopher G ^a   May, Thomas W ^a   Arnold, W Ray ^c   Santore, Robert C ^d   Augspurger, Tom ^e   Dwyer, F James ^f   Barniiart, M Chris ^g  

^a Jackson Field Research Station   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c Aquatic Ecological Risk Assessment LLC   (United States)

^d HydroQual Inc   (United States)

^e US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

^f US Fish & Wildlife Service   (United States)

^g MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotic ligand model; Copper; Dissolved organic carbon; Juvenile mussels; Water quality criteria

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING AND MATERIALS; BIOTIC LIGAND MODEL; COPPER TOXICITY; DISSOLVED COPPER; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; EFFECTIVE CONCENTRATION; FRESHWATER MUSSELS; HARD WATER; HUMIC ACID; MUSSEL SPECIES; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTERS; NATURAL SURFACE; NATURAL WATERS; TOXICITY TEST; TOXICITY TESTING; U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; WATER COMPOSITION; WATER HARDNESS; WATER QUALITY CRITERIA; WELL WATER;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); COPPER; DISSOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; HARDNESS; LIGANDS; ORGANIC ACIDS; ORGANIC CARBON; STREAM FLOW; SURFACE TESTING; TOXICITY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

COPPER; HUMIC ACID; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER; ORGANIC CARBON; SURFACE WATER;

BIOTIC FACTOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COPPER; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; HUMIC ACID; JUVENILE; MOLLUSC; ORGANIC MATTER; TOXICITY TEST; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICITY; FEMALE; FRESHWATER SPECIES; HEAVY METAL POISONING; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER HARDNESS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMALS; CARBON; COPPER; FEMALE; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; LIGANDS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TOXICITY TESTS; UNIONIDAE; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

LAMPSILIS SILIQUOIDEA;

EID: 77950302442     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/08-655.1     Document Type: Article

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