Sources, occurrence and predicted aquatic impact of legacy and contemporary pesticides in streams

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 200, Issue , 2015, Pages 64-76

  McKnight, Ursula S ^a   Rasmussen, Jes J ^b   Kronvang, Brian ^b   Binning, Philip J ^a   Bjerg, Poul L ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aquatic systems; Benthic macroinvertebrates; Ecotoxicity; Groundwater surface water interaction; Legacy pesticides; Sediment bound residues

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; LEGACY SYSTEMS; METABOLITES; PESTICIDES; SEDIMENTS; SURFACE WATERS;

AQUATIC SYSTEM; BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES; BOUND RESIDUES; ECOTOXICITY; GROUND WATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTIONS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

GROUND WATER; INSECTICIDE; PESTICIDE; SURFACE WATER; HERBICIDE; WATER POLLUTANT;

BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; ECOTOXICOLOGY; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HEADWATER; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PESTICIDE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; STREAM; TOXICITY; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; PREDICTION; SEDIMENT; STREAM (RIVER); WATER POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RIVER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER POLLUTANT;

ECOSYSTEM; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HERBICIDES; INSECTICIDES; PESTICIDES; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84923036237     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2015.02.015     Document Type: Article

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