Sediment toxicity identification evaluation (TIE phases I and II) based on microscale bioassays for diagnosing causes of toxicity in coastal areas affected by domestic sewage.

abstract：:The authors derive predicted-no-effect concentrations (PNECs) for the steroid estrogens (estrone [E1], 17β-estradiol [E2], estriol [E3], and 17α-ethinylestradiol [EE2]) appropriate for use in risk assessment of aquatic organisms. In a previous study, they developed a PNEC of 0.35 ng/L for EE2 from a species sensitivit...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Caldwell DJ,Mastrocco F,Anderson PD,Länge R,Sumpter JP

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the past two decades, the phenomenon of hormesis has gained increased recognition. To promote research in hormesis, a sound statistical quantification of important parameters, such as the level and significance of the increase in response and the range of concentration where it occurs, is strongly needed. Here,...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Cedergreen N,Ritz C,Streibig JC

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of a series of chlorinated ethenes and ethanes on hybrid poplar (Populus deltoides x nigra DN34) were assessed in laboratory experiments. Poplar cuttings were grown in sealed reactors with hydroponic solutions and were exposed to a chlorinated solvent for a period of two weeks. Exposure concentrations ranged f...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Dietz AC,Schnoor JL

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Instream flows of the rapidly urbanizing watersheds and estuaries of the Gulf of Mexico in Texas (USA) are increasingly dominated by reclaimed waters. Though ionizable pharmaceuticals have received increasing attention in freshwaters, many research questions remain unanswered, particularly in tidally influenced urban ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Scott WC,Du B,Haddad SP,Breed CS,Saari GN,Kelly M,Broach L,Chambliss CK,Brooks BW

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High concentrations (300 ng/L) of androstenedione (A4) were identified in snowmelt runoff from fields fertilized with manure from livestock feeding operations in Wisconsin, USA. In fishes, A4 is an active androgen and substrate for biosynthesis of functional androgens (e.g., testosterone and 11-ketotestosterone) and e...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： DeQuattro ZA,Hemming JD,Barry TP

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inorganic fluorides were declared toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act in 1993 based on their potential to cause long-term harmful effects in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, but information on the toxicity of sediment-associated fluoride to freshwater benthic organisms was considered incomplete. T...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Metcalfe-Smith JL,Holtze KE,Sirota GR,Reid JJ,de Solla SR

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diclofenac (DCF) is a widely used nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug that is regularly detected in surface waters. To support a robust aquatic risk assessment, two early life stage (ELS) tests, compliant with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) test guideline 210, were conducted in rainb...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Memmert U,Peither A,Burri R,Weber K,Schmidt T,Sumpter JP,Hartmann A

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bleached kraft pulp mill discharging effluent to the Mattagami River in northern Ontario, Canada, closed after almost 90 yr of operation. During its operation, effluent from the mill influenced biota in the downstream areas. To assess shifts in the reliance of biota from mill-derived nutrients, the isotopic composit...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： McMahon HM,Arciszewski TJ,Munkittrick KR,Kidd KA

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In some kinetic studies with aquatic invertebrates, the bioaccumulation of polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) has been observed to peak at the beginning of the test. This has been explained by the depletion of PAHs from pore water due to limited desorption during the bioaccumulation test or, alternatively, by the activa...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Lyytikäinen M,Pehkonen S,Akkanen J,Leppänen M,Kukkonen JV

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen adjuvants, many used as surfactants for aquatic herbicide applications, were applied in static bioassay to bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus) for 96 h to determine median lethal concentrations (LC50). Surfactants are added to the tank mix as a percentage (v/v) of the total volume, in contrast to herbicide...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Haller WT,Stocker RK

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organophosphate and carbamate compounds are among the most widely used pesticides. Contamination of surface water by these compounds is of concern because of potential toxicity to aquatic organisms, especially those at lower trophic levels. In this study we evaluated the persistence of diazinon, chlorpyrifos, malathio...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Bondarenko S,Gan J,Haver DL,Kabashima JN

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight propylene glycol substances, ranging from 1,2-propanediol to a poly(propylene glycol) (PPG) having number-average molecular weight (M(n)) of 2,700 (i.e., PPG 2700), were evaluated in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) ready- and seawater biodegradability tests. Uniformity in test pa...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： West RJ,Davis JW,Pottenger LH,Banton MI,Graham C

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Luminescent bacterium Shk1 was created for the purpose of testing and screening the toxicity of activated sludge wastewater treatment plant influent to avoid toxic shock to the wastewater treatment plant microorganisms. The toxicity of a number of organic compounds was tested using an assay employing Shk1. Because the...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Ren S,Frymier PD

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Widespread use of pesticides often contaminates natural habitats, exposing nontarget organisms to pesticides that were designed to control pest populations. Even low levels of pesticides can affect aquatic communities both directly and indirectly. Previous work has shown that trace amounts of the pesticide chlorpyrifo...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： McClelland SJ,Bendis RJ,Relyea RA,Woodley SK

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The toxicity of an acid mine drainage (AMD) mixing zone was investigated by placing bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) at the confluence of a stream contaminated by AMD and a stream having neutral pH. A mixing channel receiving water from both streams was assembled in the field, during July and October 1996, to determine ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Henry TB,Irwin ER,Grizzle JM,Brumbaugh WG,Wildhaber ML

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The European Union System for the Evaluation of Substances (EUSES) is a computerized model system to facilitate and harmonize health and environmental risk assessment of previously notified and new substances. For calculation of regional background exposure, a multimedia distribution model is used. In the present stud...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Matthies M,Berding V,Beyer A

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excess selenium (Se) in the aquatic food chain is embryotoxic and teratogenic to avocets, stilts, and other waterbirds. American avocet (Recurvirostra americana) and black-necked stilt (Himantopus mexicanus) eggs were collected from three sites in the Tulare Lake Basin of California, USA, and hatched in the laboratory...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Hoffman DJ,Marn CM,Marois KC,Sproul E,Dunne M,Skorupa JP

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The risk to adjacent aquatic systems posed by leachates from scrap tires used in engineering applications has not been characterized adequately. Toxicity testing, toxicity identification evaluation (TIE), and groundwater modeling were used to determine the circumstances under which tire shreds could be used as roadbed...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Sheehan PJ,Warmerdam JM,Ogle S,Humphrey DN,Patenaude SM

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aerial spray prediction model AgDRIFT embodies the computational engine found in the near-wake Lagrangian model AGricultural DISPersal (AGDISP) but with several important features added that improve the speed and accuracy of its predictions. This article summarizes those changes, describes the overall analytical a...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Teske ME,Bird SL,Esterly DM,Curbishley TB,Ray SL,Perry SG

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comprehensive gas chromatographic-high-resolution mass spectrometric (GC-HRMS)-based method was developed that permitted the simultaneous determination of 30 estrogenic endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and related compounds, including surfactants, biogenic and synthetic steroids, fecal sterols, phytoestrogens, ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Ikonomou MG,Cai SS,Fernandez MP,Blair JD,Fischer M

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antidepressants have been found in measurable concentrations in final treated wastewater effluent and receiving waters throughout the world. Studies have shown that these concentrations are typically not overtly toxic, but the psychotropic mode of action of these chemicals warrants examination of their behavioral effe...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Bisesi JH Jr,Sweet LE,van den Hurk P,Klaine SJ

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2 most abundant polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) measured in Deepwater Horizon crude oil, naphthalene and phenanthrene, and their associated homologs have both been shown to be acutely toxic in fish. Although fish have a relatively high metabolic capacity for PAHs, hydroxylated PAH (OH-PAH) derivatives form...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Pulster EL,Main K,Wetzel D,Murawski S

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of seasonal changes in water conditions and parameters on several major pharmacologically active compounds (PhACs) and s-triazine herbicides was assessed in the wastewater and sewage treatment plant (WSTP) effluent as well as the downstream surface water from sites on the Canadian side of the upper Detro...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Hua WY,Bennett ER,Maio XS,Metcalfe CD,Letcher RJ

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil samples spiked with five concentrations of pyrene and phenanthrene were aged for 0, 10, 40, and 120 d before toxicity was investigated using a standardized bioassay with the soil-dwelling collembolan Folsomia fimetaria L. Toxic effects were measured as reductions in survival and reproductive output after 3 weeks ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Sverdrup LE,Jensen J,Krogh PH,Stenersen J

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rate constant bioaccumulation models are applied to simulate the flow of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) in the coastal marine food web of Frierfjorden, a contaminated fjord in southern Norway. We apply two different ways to parameterize the rate constants in the model, global sensitivity...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Saloranta TM,Andersen T,Naes K

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ionic silver is toxic to aquatic organisms at low concentrations. However, complexation to binding sites on natural organic matter has been shown to reduce silver toxicity. Research indicates that there is a need to develop reliable methods for characterizing silver binding at very low silver ion concentrations where ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Rader KJ,Shadi TS,Mahony JD,Di Toro DM

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory studies were conducted to determine the influence of surface and subsurface properties of three representative soils of the humid pampas of Argentina on atrazine and metribuzin sorption. Atrazine and metribuzin sorption isotherms were constructed for each soil at four depths. Sorption affinity of herbicides...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Daniel PE,Bedmar F,Costa JL,Aparicio VC

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased ionic concentrations are associated with the impairment of benthic invertebrate assemblages. However, the causal nature of that relationship must be demonstrated so that it can be used to derive a benchmark for conductivity. The available evidence is organized in terms of six characteristics of causation: co...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Cormier SM,Suter GW 2nd,Zheng L,Pond GJ

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing concern over the effects of increased salinization on freshwater organisms, which are largely unknown for unionid mussels. Adult and larval Elliptio complanata were exposed to low-level salt concentrations to determine the effects on mussel survival, physiology, and reproduction. Adults were exposed t...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Blakeslee CJ,Galbraith HS,Robertson LS,St John White B

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standard ecotoxicity tests are conducted under constant and favorable experimental conditions. In natural communities, however, the toxicity of chemicals may be influenced by abiotic and biotic environmental factors. Firstly, the authors examined the influence of temperature and total food concentration on the nature ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Hochmuth JD,Janssen CR,De Schamphelaere KA

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00