Behavioural changes in three species of freshwater macroinvertebrates exposed to the pyrethroid lambda-cyhalothrin: Laboratory and stream microcosm studies

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 328-335

  Nørum, Ulrik ^a   Friberg, Nikolai ^b   Jensen, Maria R ^a   Pedersen, Jakob M ^a   Bjerregaard, Poul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Drift; Lambda cyhalothrin; Locomotory behaviour; Pyrethroids; Stream macroinvertebrates; Video tracking

Indexed keywords

CYHALOTHRIN;

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRIFT BEHAVIOR; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MICROCOSM; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PYRETHROID; SUBLETHAL EFFECT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FRESHWATER SPECIES; GAMMARUS; GAMMARUS PULEX; HEPTAGENIA SULPHUREA; LEUCTRA NIGRA; LOCOMOTION; MICROCOSM; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREAM (RIVER); VIDEORECORDING; WATER POLLUTION;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; INSECTICIDES; INSECTS; NITRILES; PYRETHRINS; RIVERS; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

GAMMARUS PULEX; HEPTAGENIA SULPHUREA; INVERTEBRATA; LEUCTRA NIGRA;

EID: 77953659098     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2010.03.004     Document Type: Article

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