Competitive stress can make the herbicide Roundup® more deadly to larval amphibians

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 446-454

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecotoxicology; Pesticide; Polyethoxylated tallowamine; Synergistic interaction

Indexed keywords

ACID EQUIVALENTS; ECO-TOXICOLOGY; GLYPHOSATES; GREEN FROGS; HERBICIDE CONCENTRATION; HIGH DENSITY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MEDIAN LETHAL CONCENTRATION; MESOCOSMS; NATURAL STRESSORS; NATURAL SYSTEMS; NON-TARGET ORGANISM; PERIPHYTONS; POLYETHOXYLATED TALLOWAMINE; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT; SYNERGISTIC INTERACTION; TEMPERATURE STRATIFICATION; TOXICITY ASSESSMENT; WATER COLUMNS;

ECOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; TOXICITY; WEED CONTROL;

HERBICIDES;

GLYPHOSATE;

AMPHIBIAN; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GLYPHOSATE; LABORATORY METHOD; LARVA; MESOCOSM; NONTARGET ORGANISM; PERIPHYTON; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POPULATION DECLINE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRATIFICATION; SURVIVAL; SYNERGISM; TOXICITY TEST; WATER COLUMN;

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FROG; HYLA VERSICOLOR; LARVA; LC 50; MESOCOSM; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; NONHUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PERIPHYTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANA CLAMITANS; SURVIVAL; TADPOLE; TEMPERATURE; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMALS; ANURA; ECOTOXICOLOGY; GLYCINE; HERBICIDES; LARVA; LETHAL DOSE 50; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AMPHIBIA; HYLA; HYLA VERSICOLOR; RANA CATESBEIANA; RANA CLAMITANS;

EID: 78651366283     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.384     Document Type: Article

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