Are WWTPs effluents responsible for acute toxicity? Seasonal variations of sediment quality at the Bay of Cádiz (SW, Spain)

Ecotoxicology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 368-380

  Maranho, L A ^a   Garrido Perez M C ^a   Baena Nogueras, R M ^a   Lara Martin P A ^a   Anton Martin R ^a   DelValls, T A ^a   Martin Diaz M L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acute bioassays; Contamination; Marine sediment; Seasonality; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ATENOLOL; AZITHROMYCIN; CAFFEINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CEFDINIR; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOFIBRIC ACID; DETERGENT; DICLOFENAC; ERYTHROMYCIN; FENOPROFEN; FLUMEQUINE; FLUOXETINE; GEMFIBROZIL; LINCOMYCIN; METAL; METRONIDAZOLE; NOVOBIOCIN; ORNIDAZOLE; PARACETAMOL; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PROPRANOLOL; ROXITHROMYCIN; SPARFLOXACIN; TIAMULIN; UNINDEXED DRUG; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ADULT; AMPHIPODA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAY; BIOASSAY; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CHEMICAL WASTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; EMBRYO; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GROWTH RATE; IC50; MICROALGA; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; SEA URCHIN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; SOLID; SPAIN; TOXICITY TESTING; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER QUALITY; ALIIVIBRIO FISCHERI; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; EMBRYOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INVERTEBRATE; LONGEVITY; LUMINESCENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEWAGE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOXICITY; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ALIIVIBRIO FISCHERI; ANIMALS; BAYS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INVERTEBRATES; LONGEVITY; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MICROALGAE; SPAIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84925501570     PISSN: 09639292     EISSN: 15733017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10646-014-1385-5     Document Type: Article

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