Invertebrates as indicators for chemical stress in sewage-influenced stream systems: Toxic and endocrine effects in gammarids and reactions at the community level in two tributaries of Lake Constance, Schussen and Argen

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 106, Issue , 2014, Pages 115-125

  Peschke, Katharina ^a   Geburzi, Jonas ^a   Kor̈hler, Heinz R ^a   Wurm, Karl ^b   Triebskorn, Rita ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b GöL Water Ecology Laboratory Starzach   (Germany)

^c Steinbeis Transfer Center for Ecotoxicology and Ecophysiology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endocrine effects; Gammarid species; Macrozoobenthos; Monitoring; Sewage influenced stream; Toxic effects

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; BIOLOGICAL FACTOR; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70;

AMPHIPOD; BIOMARKER; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FECUNDITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MACROBENTHOS; MONITORING; PARASITISM; SEWAGE; SEX RATIO; STORMWATER; STREAM; TOXICITY; WATER FLOW; WATER QUALITY; ZOOBENTHOS;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HEALTH; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ECOTOXICITY; EPHEMEROPTERA; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GAMMARID; HISTOLOGY; LAKE; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PLECOPTERA; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RIVER BASIN; SEWAGE; SEX RATIO; STREAM (RIVER); TRICHOPTERA; UPREGULATION; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER FLOW; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

ARGEN RIVER; BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; BODENSEE; GERMANY;

ENDOCRINE EFFECTS; GAMMARID SPECIES; MACROZOOBENTHOS; MONITORING; SEWAGE-INFLUENCED STREAM; TOXIC EFFECTS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GERMANY; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; INVERTEBRATES; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; RIVERS; SEWAGE; SEX RATIO; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84900519277     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2014.04.011     Document Type: Article

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