The ecological effects of a herbicide-insecticide mixture on an experimental freshwater ecosystem

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 172, Issue , 2013, Pages 264-274

  Choung, Catherine B ^a   Hyne, Ross V ^b   Stevens, Mark M ^c   Hose, Grant C ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

^c NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atrazine; Community effects; Microcosms; Pesticide mixture; Terbufos

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; CHIRONOMIDS; COMMUNITY EFFECTS; ECOLOGICAL EFFECT; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HIGH CONCENTRATION; INDIRECT EFFECTS; MICROCOSMS; PESTICIDE MIXTURE; POPULATION-LEVEL EFFECTS; POTENTIAL RISKS; TERBUFOS;

ECOSYSTEMS; INSECTICIDES; MIXTURES; POPULATION STATISTICS; WEED CONTROL;

HERBICIDES;

ATRAZINE; HERBICIDE; INSECTICIDE; TERBUFOS;

ABUNDANCE; ATRAZINE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HERBICIDE; INSECTICIDE; MICROCOSM;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHIRONOMIDAE; CLADOCERA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANIMALS; ATRAZINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; HERBICIDES; INSECTICIDES; INVERTEBRATES; ORGANOTHIOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CHIRONOMIDAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84867409474     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2012.09.002     Document Type: Article

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