Moving beyond a descriptive aquatic toxicology: The value of biological process and trait information

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 105, Issue 3-4 SUPPL., 2011, Pages 50-55

  Segner, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biological response profile; Effect propgataion; Multiple stress; Phenotypic trait; Toxicity pathway

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; NONYLPHENOL;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BIOTA; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

AQUATIC SPECIES; AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BIOPROCESS; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FISHES; PHENOTYPE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 81355147555     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: 18791514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2011.06.016     Document Type: Article

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