Impacts of stage-specific acute pesticide exposure on predicted population structure of the soft-shell clam, Mya arenaria

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 265-274

  Lindsay, S ^a   Chasse, J ^a   Butler, R A ^a   Morrill, W ^a   Van Beneden, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

2,4 D; Bivalve; Hexazinone; Matrix population model; Pediveliger; Phosmet; Veliger

Indexed keywords

2,4 DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; HEXAZINONE; PHOSMET;

BIVALVE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; LABORATORY METHOD; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDICTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; GROWTH DISORDER; LARVAL STAGE; MORTALITY; MYA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYA; PESTICIDES; PHOSMET; POPULATION GROWTH; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TRIAZINES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BIVALVIA; MYA ARENARIA;

EID: 77953685471     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2010.02.012     Document Type: Article

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