Automated Nanocosm test system to assess the effects of stressors on two interacting populations

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 109, Issue , 2012, Pages 243-249

  Foit, Kaarina ^a   Kaske, Oliver ^a   Wahrendorf, Dierk Steffen ^b   Duquesne, Sabine ^a   Liess, Matthias ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF HYDROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competition; Culex pipiens; Daphnia magna; Image analysis; Population density; Size structure

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CRUSTACEAN; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIZE STRUCTURE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX PIPIENS; DAPHNIA; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; CULEX; DAPHNIA; ECOSYSTEM; ECOTOXICOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX PIPIENS MOLESTUS; DAPHNIA MAGNA;

EID: 84856594298     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: 18791514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2011.09.013     Document Type: Article

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