Improving ecological risk assessment in the Mediterranean area: Selection of reference soils and evaluating the influence of soil properties on avoidance and reproduction of two oligochaete species

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1050-1058

  Chelinho, Sónia ^a   Domene, Xavier ^b   Campana, Paolo ^c   Natal da Luz, Tiago ^a   Scheffczyk, Adam ^d   Römbke, Jörg ^d   Andrés, Pilar ^b   Sousa, José Paulo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d ECT OEKOTOXIKOLOGIE GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Avoidance tests; Eisenia andrei; Enchytraeus crypticus; Natural soils; Reproduction tests

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE TESTS; EISENIA ANDREI; ENCHYTRAEUS CRYPTICUS; NATURAL SOILS; REPRODUCTION TESTS;

ECOLOGY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; PH EFFECTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOILS; TESTING; TEXTURES;

SOIL TESTING;

SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AVOIDANCE REACTION; DATA SET; EARTHWORM; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECOTOXICOLOGY; HABITAT TYPE; LINEARITY; PH; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL TEXTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CLAY; EARTHWORM; ECOTOXICOLOGY; HABITAT; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NONHUMAN; PH; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAND; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL TEXTURE; SPAIN;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LINEAR MODELS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; OLIGOCHAETA; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EISENIA ANDREI; ENCHYTRAEIDAE; ENCHYTRAEUS CRYPTICUS;

EID: 79953764482     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.480     Document Type: Article

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