Sublethal toxicity of commercial insecticide formulations and their active ingredients to larval fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 3169-3175

  Beggel, Sebastian ^a,b   Werner, Inge ^a   Connon, Richard E ^a   Geist, Juergen P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bifenthrin; Fipronil; Fish; Pyrethroids; Sublethal effects; Swimming behavior

Indexed keywords

BIFENTHRIN; FIPRONIL; PYRETHROIDS; SUBLETHAL EFFECTS; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR;

DISSOLUTION; ESTERS; INSECT CONTROL; RISK MANAGEMENT; SURFACE WATERS; TOXICITY;

INSECTICIDES;

BIFENTHRIN; FIPRONIL; INSECTICIDE;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CYPRINID; ECOTOXICOLOGY; INSECTICIDE; PYRETHROID; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROWTH PERIOD; LARVA; NONHUMAN; PEST CONTROL; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWIMMING; TOXICITY TESTING; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CYPRINIFORMES; DRUG EFFECTS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; TOXICITY;

ANIMALS; CYPRINIDAE; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; SWIMMING;

PIMEPHALES PROMELAS;

EID: 77953707945     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.04.004     Document Type: Article

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