Assessment of multi-chemical pollution in aquatic ecosystems using toxic units: Compound prioritization, mixture characterization and relationships with biological descriptors

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 468-469, Issue , 2014, Pages 715-723

  Ginebreda, Antoni ^a   Kuzmanovic, Maja ^a   Guasch, Helena ^b   de Alda, Miren López ^a   López Doval, Julio C ^c   Muñoz, Isabel ^c   Ricart, Marta ^d   Romaní, Anna M ^b   Sabater, Sergi ^b,d   Barceló, Damià ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d CATALAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH ICRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biological descriptors; Compound prioritization; Lognormal distribution; Mixture toxicity; Toxic units

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; MIXTURES; PESTICIDES; POLLUTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER POLLUTION; TOXICITY; WATERSHEDS;

DESCRIPTORS; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; MIXTURE TOXICITY; PRIORITIZATION; TOXIC UNIT;

CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS;

CLOFIBRIC ACID; DICLOFENAC; DIMPYLATE; DIURON; ERYTHROMYCIN; FENITROTHION; GEMFIBROZIL; IBUPROFEN; ISOPROTURON; LINURON; PARACETAMOL; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TERBUTYLAZINE;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BENTHOS; BIOASSAY; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; DRUG; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; MACROBENTHOS; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOXICITY; URBAN AREA;

ALGA; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BIOFILM; BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DAPHNIA; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MIXTURE TOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER BASIN; SPAIN; TOXICITY TESTING; URBAN AREA; WATER CONTAMINATION;

CATALONIA; LLOBREGAT BASIN; SPAIN;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; DAPHNIA;

BIOLOGICAL DESCRIPTORS; COMPOUND PRIORITIZATION; LOGNORMAL DISTRIBUTION; MIXTURE TOXICITY; TOXIC UNITS;

ANIMALS; BIOFILMS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DAPHNIA; ECOLOGICAL PARAMETER MONITORING; MICROALGAE; PESTICIDES; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVERS; SPAIN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84884389928     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.08.086     Document Type: Article

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