Road deicing salt irreversibly disrupts osmoregulation of salamander egg clutches

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 159, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 833-835

  Karraker, Nancy E ^a,b   Gibbs, James P ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Ambystoma maculatum; Deicing salt; Embryos; Road salt; Water uptake

Indexed keywords

AMBYSTOMA MACULATUM; DEICING SALTS; EMBRYOS; ROAD SALTS; WATER UPTAKE;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); RAIN; ROADS AND STREETS; SALTS; WETLANDS;

CLUTCHES;

CHLORIDE; RAIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AMPHIBIAN; CHLORIDE; CLUTCH SIZE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMBRYO; OSMOREGULATION; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PREDATION; WATER UPTAKE; WETLAND;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; EGG; FREEZING; MASS; NONHUMAN; OSMOREGULATION; PREDATION RISK; RISK REDUCTION; SALAMANDER; SPRING; WATER TRANSPORT; WETLAND;

AMBYSTOMA; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ICE; NEW YORK; OVUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

AMBYSTOMA MACULATUM; AMPHIBIA; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 78751591214     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2010.11.019     Document Type: Article

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