Pesticide toxicity index-a tool for assessing potential toxicity of pesticide mixtures to freshwater aquatic organisms

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 476-477, Issue , 2014, Pages 144-157

  Nowell, Lisa H ^a   Norman, Julia E ^b   Moran, Patrick W ^b   Martin, Jeffrey D ^b   Stone, Wesley W ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic toxicity; Indicators; Mixtures; Pesticides; Water quality

Indexed keywords

INDICATORS (INSTRUMENTS); MIXTURES; PESTICIDES; TOOLS; TOXICITY; WATER QUALITY;

AQUATIC TOXICITY; BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; BIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; CERIODAPHNIA DUBIA; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE; PESTICIDE CONCENTRATIONS; PESTICIDE EXPOSURE; PESTICIDE MIXTURE;

RIVER POLLUTION;

PESTICIDE;

AQUATIC ORGANISM; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; FISH; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; PESTICIDE; SURVIVAL; TOXICITY; WATERSHED; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; CERIODAPHNIA DUBIA; CLADOCERA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FISH; FRESHWATER SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCREENING TEST; STREAM (RIVER); SURVIVAL RATE; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY;

AQUATIC TOXICITY; INDICATORS; MIXTURES; PESTICIDES; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; INVERTEBRATES; PESTICIDES; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84892876132     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.12.088     Document Type: Article

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