Questions concerning the potential impact of glyphosate-based herbicides on amphibians

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1688-1700

  Wagner, Norman ^a   Reichenbecher, Wolfram ^b   Teichmann, Hanka ^b   Tappeser, Beatrix ^b   Lötters, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b Federal Agency for Nature Conservation   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aminomethylphosphonic acid; Amphibian decline; Pesticide; Polyethoxylated alkylamine; Roundup

Indexed keywords

ALKYLAMINE; AMINO-METHYLPHOSPHONIC ACIDS; AMPHIBIAN DECLINE; AMPHIBIAN POPULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONCENTRATION; HERBICIDE FORMULATION; NATURAL POPULATION; ROUNDUP;

ECOSYSTEMS; PESTICIDES; POPULATION STATISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WEED CONTROL;

HERBICIDES;

GLYPHOSATE; HERBICIDE;

AMPHIBIAN; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOTOXICOLOGY; GLYPHOSATE; LARVA; POLLUTION EFFECT; POPULATION DECLINE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ABIOTIC STRESS; ACUTE TOXICITY; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AQUATIC SPECIES; BIOTIC STRESS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTAMINATION; DEFORMITY; DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICITY; EMBRYOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENOTOXICITY; HABITAT; LARVA; META ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALAMANDER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES;

AMINOMETHYLPHOSPHONIC ACID; AMPHIBIAN DECLINE; PESTICIDE; POLYETHOXYLATED ALKYLAMINE; ROUNDUP;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GLYCINE; HERBICIDES; LARVA; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84880296145     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.2268     Document Type: Review

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