Assessment criteria for using the sea-urchin embryo test with sediment elutriates as a tool to classify the ecotoxicological status of marine water bodies

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1192-1198

  Durán, Iria ^a   Beiras, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ecotoxicological status; Paracentrotus lividus; Sediment toxicity; Water quality

Indexed keywords

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SET THEORY; TOXICITY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT; EUROPEAN LEGISLATION; IN-LINE; MARINE WATERS; MULTI-YEAR DATA; NET RESPONSE; NORTH-WEST IBERIAN PENINSULA; PARACENTROTUS LIVIDUS; POWER ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF DATA; REFERENCE SITES; SAMPLING SITE; SEA-URCHIN; SEDIMENT ELUTRIATES; SEDIMENT TOXICITY; T-TESTS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

SEA WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

BIOMONITORING; DATABASE; ECHINODERM; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EMBRYO; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; SAMPLING; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; STATISTICAL APPLICATION; TOXICITY TEST; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; ECOTOXICITY; EMBRYO; LAW; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SEA URCHIN; SEDIMENT; STUDENT T TEST; WATER QUALITY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EMBRYOLOGY; SEA; SPAIN; WATER POLLUTANT;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

ECHINOIDEA; PARACENTROTUS LIVIDUS;

ANIMALS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEA URCHINS; SEAWATER; SPAIN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 77953555635     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.136     Document Type: Article

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