Roundup® and amphibians: The importance of concentration, application time, and stratification

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2016-2025

  Jones, Devin K ^a   Hammond, John I ^a   Relyea, Rick A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian decline; Breakdown; Ecotoxicology; Oxygen; Polyethoxylated tallowamine

Indexed keywords

ACID EQUIVALENTS; AMPHIBIAN DECLINE; BREAKDOWN; ECO-TOXICOLOGY; HABITAT CHOICE; HERBICIDE GLYPHOSATE; HERBIVORY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LETHAL CONCENTRATION; MESOCOSMS; MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; NON-TARGET ORGANISM; PERIPHYTONS; POLYETHOXYLATED TALLOWAMINE; TEMPERATURE STRATIFICATION;

ACIDS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ECOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; OXYGEN; TIME MEASUREMENT; WEED CONTROL;

HERBICIDES;

GLYPHOSATE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FRESH WATER; GLYCINE; HERBICIDE;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOTOXICOLOGY; ECTOTHERMY; FROG; GLYPHOSATE; HABITAT SELECTION; HERBIVORY; MESOCOSM; MORTALITY; NONTARGET ORGANISM; PERIPHYTON; PESTICIDE; POPULATION DECLINE; STRATIFICATION; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; TOAD;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EXPOSURE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PERIPHYTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TADPOLE; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FROGS AND TOADS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; METABOLISM; SURVIVAL; WATER POLLUTANT;

AMPHIBIA; BUFO AMERICANUS; RANA SYLVATICA;

ANIMALS; ANURA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FRESH WATER; GLYCINE; HERBICIDES; LARVA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 78649492880     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.240     Document Type: Article

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