Health status of native fish (Percilia gillissi and Trichomycterus areolatus) downstream of the discharge of effluent from a tertiary-treated elemental chlorine-free pulp mill in Chile

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1793-1809

  Chiang, Gustavo ^a   Mcmaster, Mark E ^b   Urrutia, Roberto ^a   Saavedra, M Fernanda ^a   Gavilán, J Francisco ^a   Tucca, Felipe ^a   Barra, Ricardo ^a   Munkittrick, Kelly R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Altered reproduction; Chile; Native fish; Pulp mill effluent; Tertiary treatment

Indexed keywords

ALTERED REPRODUCTION; CHILE; NATIVE FISH; PULP MILL EFFLUENT; TERTIARY TREATMENT;

CHLORINE; DROPS; EFFLUENTS; FISH; FISHERIES; POPULATION STATISTICS; PULP MANUFACTURE;

PAPER AND PULP MILLS;

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; ETHOXYRESORUFIN DEETHYLASE; INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT;

ALCOHOL; CHLORINE; DATA SET; DIAMETER; DISCHARGE; EFFLUENT; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; HEALTH STATUS; HORMONE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NATIVE SPECIES; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PERCIFORM; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY; REPRODUCTION; RESEARCH WORK; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHILE; FEMALE; FRESHWATER FISH; HEALTH STATUS; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PERCILIA GILLISSI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULP MILL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRICHOMYCTERUS AREOLATUS;

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; CATFISHES; CHILE; CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP1A1; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; GONADS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LIVER; MALE; PAPER; PERCIFORMES; POPULATION DENSITY; TESTOSTERONE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; CHLORINE; DROPS; EFFLUENTS; FISHES; MANUFACTURE; PULP MILLS; PULPS;

CHILE;

TRICHOMYCTERUS AREOLATUS;

EID: 79960078010     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.573     Document Type: Article

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