Toxicity of petroleum hydrocarbon distillates to soil organisms

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2685-2694

  Cermak, Janet H ^a,d   Stephenson, Gladys L ^a,b   Birkholz, Detlef ^c   Wang, Zhendi ^d   Dixon, D George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b STANTEC CONSULTING LTD   (Canada)

^c ALS Laboratory Group   (Canada)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada wide standards; Exposure duration; Petroleum distillates; Risk assessment; Soil organisms

Indexed keywords

CANADA-WIDE STANDARDS; EISENIA ANDREI; ELYMUS LANCEOLATUS; EXPOSURE DURATION; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS; SOIL ORGANISMS; SUBFRACTIONS; TEST DURATION; TOXICITY TEST; WHEATGRASS;

ANIMALS; CRUDE OIL; ECOLOGY; HYDROCARBONS; PETROLEUM CHEMISTRY; PETROLEUM DISTILLATES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOILS; STANDARDS;

TOXICITY;

HYDROCARBON; PETROLEUM DERIVATIVE;

CRUDE OIL; DISTILLATION; EARTHWORM; GRASS; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL POLLUTION; TOXICITY TEST;

ARTICLE; DISTILLATION; EARTHWORM; EISENIA ANDREI; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; ORTHONYCHIURUS FOLSOMI; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; SOIL ORGANISM;

PETROLEUM; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

COLLEMBOLA; EISENIA ANDREI; ELYMUS KRONOKENSIS SUBALPINUS; ELYMUS LANCEOLATUS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 78249238846     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.352     Document Type: Article

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