Acute and chronic toxicity of Betanal®Expert and its active ingredients on nontarget aquatic organisms from different trophic levels

Environmental Toxicology

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 537-548

  Vidal, Tânia ^a   Abrantes, Nelson ^a   Gonçalves, Ana M M ^b   Gonçalves, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Aquatic nontarget organisms; Betanal Expert; Coformulated herbicide; Desmedipham; Ethofumesate; Phenmedipham

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE INGREDIENTS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; AQUATIC SPECIES; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLORELLA VULGARIS; CHRONIC TOXICITY; DAPHNIA LONGISPINA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; DAPHNIDS; DESMEDIPHAM; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL EFFECTS; ETHOFUMESATE; LEMNA MINOR; MACROPHYTES; METABOLIC PATHWAYS; MICRO DROPLETS; MICRO-ALGAE; MODE OF ACTION; NON-TARGET ORGANISM; PERNICIOUS EFFECT; PHENMEDIPHAM; PSEUDOKIRCHNERIELLA SUBCAPITATA; SUBCAPITATA; TARGET ORGANISM; TARGET SITES; TOXICITY VALUES; TROPHIC LEVEL; VIBRIO FISCHERI; VULGARIS;

BIOLOGY; HERBICIDES; WEED CONTROL;

TOXICITY;

DESMEDIPHAM; ETHOFUMESATE; HERBICIDE; PHENMEDIPHAM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOASSAY; CRUSTACEAN; ECOTOXICOLOGY; HERBICIDE; MACROPHYTE; METABOLISM; MICROALGA; NONTARGET ORGANISM; TOXICITY TEST; TROPHIC LEVEL;

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS PSEUDOCOSTATA; CHLORELLA VULGARIS; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA LONGISPINA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; DOSE RESPONSE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; LEMNA MINOR; MICROALGA; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOKIRCHNERIELLA SUBCAPITATA; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BENZOFURANS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CARBAMATES; DAPHNIA; ECOTOXICOLOGY; HERBICIDES; MESYLATES; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84865085972     PISSN: 15204081     EISSN: 15227278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tox.20671     Document Type: Article

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