Using the critical body residue approach to determine the acute toxicity of cadmium at varying levels of water hardness and dissolved organic carbon concentrations

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1151-1155

  Penttinen, S ^a   Malk, V ^a   Vaisanen A ^b   Penttinen, O P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity; Cadmium; Critical body burden; Lumbriculus variegatus; Water chemistry

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; ORGANIC CARBON;

ANNELID; CADMIUM; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; TOXICITY;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; LC 50; LUMBRICULUS VARIEGATUS; NONHUMAN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER HARDNESS;

ACUTE TOXICITY TESTS; ANIMALS; CADMIUM; CARBON; FRESH WATER; LETHAL DOSE 50; OLIGOCHAETA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

LUMBRICULUS VARIEGATUS;

EID: 79958773569     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2011.03.017     Document Type: Article

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