Back to Search
Start Over
Development and Sensitivity of a 12-h Laboratory Test with Daphnia magna Straus Based on Avoidance of Pulp Mill Effluents
- Source :
- Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP), instacron:RCAAP
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2008.
-
Abstract
- Studies on avoidance of contaminants by aquatic organisms verified that such behavior may have crucial ecological implications. Yet, avoidance tests have not been considered in ecological risk assessments. This study aimed at developing a short-term test with Daphnia magna Straus based on avoidance of pulp mill effluents and at comparing its sensitivity to the standard 21 d D. magna reproduction test. The avoidance effective dilution values (12 h EDil20 and EDil50) were as sensitive as the 21 d EDil20 and EDil50 values for reproduction. Therefore, this easily standardizable short-term test can be recommended as a valuable complementary tool in ecological risk assessments. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00128-008-9538-y
- Subjects :
- Paper
Pulp mill
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Daphnia magna
Industrial Waste
010501 environmental sciences
Toxicology
Waste Disposal, Fluid
01 natural sciences
Daphnia
Aquatic organisms
Animals
Industry
Ecotoxicology
Ecological risk
Effluent
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
No-Observed-Adverse-Effect Level
Behavior, Animal
biology
Reproduction
Electric Conductivity
General Medicine
Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
biology.organism_classification
Pollution
Oxygen
Laboratory test
Calibration
Algorithms
Water Pollutants, Chemical
Environmental Monitoring
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14320800 and 00074861
- Volume :
- 81
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1cee1b55e57463b0ab1ce743ca0c06ad