Synthetic estrogen directly affects fish biomass and may indirectly disrupt aquatic food webs

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 930-936

  Hallgren, Per ^a   Nicolle, Alice ^a   Hansson, Lars Anders ^a   Brönmark, Christer ^a   Nikoleris, Lina ^a   Hyder, Murtaza ^a   Persson, Anders ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

17 Ethinylestradiol; Endocrine disrupting compounds; Fish indices; Food chain; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; EXPERIMENTS; FISH; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTON;

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING COMPOUND; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; FISH INDICES; FOOD CHAIN; ZOOPLANKTON;

ECOLOGY;

ETHINYLESTRADIOL;

ABUNDANCE; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CYPRINID; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; FITNESS; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEB; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH RESPONSE; MESOCOSM; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PLANKTON; POLLUTION EFFECT; PREDATION; REPRODUCTION;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CLADOCERA; COPEPOD; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD WEB; HATCHING; LOCOMOTION; MESOCOSM; NAUPLIUS (LARVA); PELAGIC FISH; PHYTOPLANKTON; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTIFERA; SWIMMING; ZOOPLANKTON;

COPEPODA; RUTILUS RUTILUS;

17Α-ETHINYLESTRADIOL; ENDOCRINE-DISRUPTING COMPOUNDS; FISH INDICES; FOOD CHAIN; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; CYPRINIDAE; ESTROGENS; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; PHYTOPLANKTON; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 84897435776     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.2528     Document Type: Article

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