Preliminary results of laboratory toxicity tests with the mayfly, Isonychia bicolor (Ephemeroptera: Isonychiidae) for development as a standard test organism for evaluating streams in the Appalachian coalfields of Virginia and West Virginia

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 169, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 487-500

  Echols, Brandi Shontia ^a   Currie, Rebecca J ^a   Cherry, Donald S ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conductivity; Isonychia bicolor; Mayflies; Reference tests; Species comparisons; TDS; Toxicity testing

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVITY; ISONYCHIA BICOLOR; MAYFLIES; REFERENCE TESTS; SPECIES COMPARISONS; TDS; TOXICITY TESTING;

BIOLOGY; COAL DEPOSITS; EFFLUENTS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STANDARDIZATION; TOXICITY;

TESTING;

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BIOASSAY; COAL MINE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONDUCTIVITY; DISSOLVED LOAD; ECOTOXICOLOGY; INSECT; LABORATORY METHOD; TOXICITY TEST;

ARTICLE; COAL MINING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAPHNIA; ECOTOXICITY; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FLY; NONHUMAN; STREAM (RIVER); TOXICITY TESTING; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; COAL MINING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INSECTS; RIVERS; SALT-TOLERANCE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TOXICITY TESTS; VIRGINIA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WEST VIRGINIA;

UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA; WEST VIRGINIA;

CERIODAPHNIA DUBIA; EPHEMEROPTERA; ISONYCHIA; ISONYCHIA BICOLOR; ISONYCHIIDAE;

EID: 77957660784     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-009-1191-3     Document Type: Article

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