Terrestrial short-term ecotoxicity of a green formicide

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 939-943

  Tiepo, Erasmo N ^a   Corrĉa, Albertina X R ^a   Resgalla, Charrid ^a   Cotelle, Sylvie ^b   Férard, Jean François ^b   Radetski, Claudemir M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO ITAJAÍ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Ants; Biotest battery; Green formicide; Soil quality; Terrestrial ecotoxicity

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN DIACETATE; PESTICIDE;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEALTH IMPACT; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PESTICIDE; SOIL QUALITY; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TOXICITY TEST;

ANNELID WORM; ANT; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CABBAGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GERMINATION; HYDROLYSIS; LETTUCE; NONHUMAN; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; TROPICS; VELVET BEAN;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BRASSICA; CAFFEINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FATTY ACIDS; GREEN CHEMISTRY TECHNOLOGY; INSECTICIDES; LETTUCE; MUCUNA; OLIGOCHAETA; PLANTS; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

ANNELIDA; BRASSICA; COLLEMBOLA; EISENIA FETIDA; EMBRYOPHYTA; FOLSOMIA CANDIDA; FORMICIDAE; LACTUCA SATIVA; MUCUNA PRURIENS VAR. UTILIS;

EID: 77953537457     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2010.01.009     Document Type: Article

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