Acute and chronic toxicity of boron to a variety of freshwater organisms

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1906-1914

  Soucek, David J ^a   Dickinson, Amy ^a   Koch, Brian T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b Illinois Environmental Protection Agency   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity; Boron; Invertebrates; Mussels; Water quality standards

Indexed keywords

ACUTE TOXICITY; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; AQUATIC LIFE; BORON TOXICITY; CERIODAPHNIA DUBIA; CHRONIC EFFECTS; CHRONIC TOXICITY; FATHEAD MINNOW; FOUR BIVALVES; FRESHWATER ORGANISMS; FRESHWATER SPECIES; HYALELLA AZTECA; ILLINOIS; INVERTEBRATES; MUSSELS; NATIVE SPECIES; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; SEWAGE EFFLUENTS; WATER QUALITY STANDARD; WATER QUALITY STANDARDS;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; BORON; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COAL COMBUSTION; EFFLUENTS; HARDNESS; PH EFFECTS; QUALITY CONTROL; SEWAGE; STANDARDS; TOXICITY; WATER QUALITY;

BORON COMPOUNDS;

BORON; FRESH WATER;

AGROCHEMICAL; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; AQUATIC ORGANISM; BORON; EFFLUENT; FISH; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HARDNESS; INVERTEBRATE; PH; REPRODUCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEWAGE; TOXICITY; WATER QUALITY;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; CERIODAPHNIA DUBIA; CRUSTACEA; HYALELLA AZTECA; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PH; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER HARDNESS; WATER QUALITY; WATER STANDARD;

ACUTE TOXICITY TESTS; AMPHIPODA; ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BORON; CYPRINIDAE; DAPHNIA; FRESH WATER; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LARVA; REPRODUCTION; TOXICITY TESTS, CHRONIC; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

BIVALVIA; CERIODAPHNIA DUBIA; CRUSTACEA; HEXAPODA; HYALELLA AZTECA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS;

EID: 79960090845     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.578     Document Type: Article

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