The impacts of metals and metalloids on insect behavior

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-17

  Mogren, Christina L ^a   Trumble, John T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Behavioral response; Cadmium; Contamination; Copper; Ingestion; Locomotion; Pollution; Reproduction; Selenium; Zinc

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; ARSENIC; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; HEAVY METAL; INSECT; LOCOMOTION; METAL; OVIPOSITION; PHOTOTAXIS; REPRODUCTION; SELENIUM; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TOXICOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 77951656032     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2010.00967.x     Document Type: Review

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