Coupling contaminants with demography: effects of lead and selenium in Pacific common eiders.

abstract：:The toxic effects of cadmium (Cd) on the green alga Chlorella vulgaris were investigated by following the response to Cd of various toxicity endpoints (cell growth, cell size, photochemical efficiency of PSII in the light or Φ(PSII), maximal photochemical efficiency or Fv/Fm, chlorophyll a fluorescence, esterase activ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Ou-Yang HL,Kong XZ,Lavoie M,He W,Qin N,He QS,Yang B,Wang R,Xu FL

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Equilibrium passive sampling methods (EPSMs) allow quantification of freely dissolved contaminant concentrations (Cfree ) in sediment porewater. Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is a convenient sampling polymer that can be equilibrated in field (in situ) or laboratory (ex situ) sediments to determine Cfree , providing reli...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Reininghaus M,Parkerton TF,Witt G

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional risk assessment guidelines employ acute or chronic toxicity tests for a maximum of one generation of organisms. These tests are usually performed in the laboratory at a constant standard temperature, although in the field organisms may experience different temperatures, which may be a source of additional ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Tassou KT,Schulz R

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During laboratory and field studies, a fraction of contaminants in soils or sediments often is observed to be highly resistant to desorption. This desorption-resistant fraction may have significant effects on long-term fate and exposure of soil/ sediment-bound contaminants in particular, causing much reduced availabil...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Chen W,Cong L,Hu H,Zhang P,Li J,Feng Z,Kan AT,Tomson MB

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the presented study a laboratory experiment was conducted to investigate the transfer of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs), and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from environmentally contaminated marine sediment to an infaunal surface deposit-feeding polycha...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Kono K,Tanaka H,Koyama J

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal cation toxicity to basidiomycete fungi is poorly understood, despite its well-known importance in terrestrial ecosystems. Moreover, there is no reported methodology for the routine evaluation of metal toxicity to basidiomycetes. In the present study, we describe the development of a procedure to assess the acute...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Mendes LF,Stevani CV

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently it was discovered that the perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) detected in wildlife, such as fish-eating birds, had a greater proportion of linear PFOS (L-PFOS) than the manufactured technical product (T-PFOS), which contains linear and branched isomers. This suggests toxicological studies based on T-PFOS data m...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： O'Brien JM,Austin AJ,Williams A,Yauk CL,Crump D,Kennedy SW

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrazine is the most extensively used herbicide in the United States. Part-per-million concentrations of atrazine have been reported in agricultural runoff. It is detectable in surface waters and precipitation throughout the year, and it has been found in groundwater sources of drinking water. Recent studies indicate ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Bringolf RB,Belden JB,Summerfelt RC

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Native freshwater mussels (family Unionidae) are among the most imperiled faunal groups in the world. Factors contributing to the decline of mussel populations likely include pesticides and other aquatic contaminants; however, there is a paucity of data regarding the toxicity of even the most globally distributed pest...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Bringolf RB,Cope WG,Mosher S,Barnhart MC,Shea D

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally assumed that as long as the majority of species experiences no direct adverse effects attributable to a single substance (i.e., potentially affected fraction [PAF] <5%), no significant structural or functional effects at the community level are expected to occur. Whether this assumption holds for mixed...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Van Regenmortel T,Van de Perre D,Janssen CR,De Schamphelaere KAC

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High levels of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs), mono- and non-ortho-polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and polybrominated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PBDDs) are found in fish from coastal areas in the Baltic Sea, which may cause ecotoxicological effects. To increase our understanding of the persist...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Arnoldsson K,Haldén AN,Norrgren L,Haglund P

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uptake and membrane transport of cadmium (Cd) in roots of the hyperaccumulator Sedum plumbizincicola X.H. Guo et S.B. Zhou ex L.H. Wu was characterized by assessing the impact of various inhibitors and ion channel blockers on Cd accumulation as well as the real-time net Cd2+ flux at the roots with application of the s...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Li LZ,Tu C,Wu LH,Peijnenburg WJ,Ebbs S,Luo YM

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To develop a multimetal toxicity model requires insight into the relationships between the composition of metal mixtures and their toxicological effects on organisms. As a first step in developing such a model, quantitative data from binary and higher mixture studies of Cu, Cd, and Zn were compiled and used to assess ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Vijver MG,Elliott EG,Peijnenburg WJ,de Snoo GR

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sponges are a potential alternative model species to bivalves in pollution biomonitoring and environmental risk assessment in the aquatic ecosystem. In the present study, a novel in vivo exposure sponge culture model was developed from field-collected and cryopreserved sponge (Hymeniacidon perleve) cells to investigat...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Akpiri RU,Konya RS,Hodges NJ

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of intersex fish in a number of European rivers has been attributed to exposure to estrogenic chemicals present in sewage treatment work (STW) effluents. To further understand the environmental fate of these contaminants, the estrogenic activity of effluents, water, and sediments were investigated both ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Peck M,Gibson RW,Kortenkamp A,Hill EM

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pesticide use has led to the ubiquitous contamination of natural habitats, which has inadvertently increased pesticide tolerance in target and nontarget species. Historically, increased pesticide tolerance has been attributed to natural selection for tolerance among individuals of affected populations. Recent research...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Jones DK,Relyea RA

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental factors, in particular temperature, have been shown to affect the toxicity of chemicals. In the present study the authors exposed the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to five concentrations of Cd (2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 mg Cd/L agar) at four constant temperatures (11, 15, 18, and 21°C) and monitored survival ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Nørhave NJ,Spurgeon D,Svendsen C,Cedergreen N

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a persistent bioaccumulative compound, perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) is found in various ecosystems and receives growing attention. The acute toxicity of PFOA was tested on 2 freshwater microalgae, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Scenedesmus obliquus. The 96-h concentration for 50% of maximal effect (EC50) values wer...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Hu C,Luo Q,Huang Q

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uptake of cadmium from water by freshwater animals has been well documented. However, little attention has been given to the importance of dietary and combined exposure as the source for uptake. In the present study, we compared cadmium uptake from waterborne (water-only), dietary (food-only), and combined (water plus...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Sofyan A,Rosita G,Price DJ,Birge WJ

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological soil-screening levels (Eco-SSLs) were developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) for the purposes of setting conservative soil screening values that can be used to eliminate the need for further ecological assessment for specific analytes at a given site. Ecological soil-screenin...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Sample BE,Fairbrother A,Kaiser A,Law S,Adams B

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides asiaeorientalis), a protected endangered species, is the sole freshwater subspecies of finless porpoise, living only in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, China, and its appended lakes. Its population has decreased sharply to 1,400 because of human act...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Yang F,Zhang Q,Xu Y,Jiang G,Wang Y,Wang D

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of point-source and diffuse discharges on resident populations of brown bullhead catfish (Ameiurus nebulosus (LeSueur, 1819)) in the Waikato River (New Zealand) were assessed at sites both upstream and downstream of point-source discharges. At each site, the population parameters, relative abundance, age s...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： West DW,Ling N,Hicks BJ,Tremblay LA,Kim ND,Van den Heuvel MR

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated the individual effects of Ca(2+) and Na(+) on the bioaccumulation of 6 types of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), including perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA), perfluorodecanoic acid (PFDA), perfluoroundecanoic acid (PFUnA), and perf...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Xia X,Rabearisoa AH,Dai Z,Jiang X,Zhao P,Wang H

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The univariate effects of Ca, pH, and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) on chronic (48-h) Pb toxicity to the freshwater rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus were investigated. High pH (8.2) and higher concentrations of DOC were protective against filtered Pb toxicity, whereas Ca was not. However, expressed as the free Pb2+ io...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Nys C,Janssen CR,De Schamphelaere KA

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：:A systematic investigation was carried out to analyze the concentration levels of heavy metals in sample seawater, sediments, and biota collected from the coastal area of Yancheng City in Jiangsu Province, China. The authors assessed the impact of these heavy metals in different environmental samples in terms of poten...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Fu J,Wang H,Billah SM,Yu H,Zhang X

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standard U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) statistical analyses of whole effluent toxicity tests involve the estimation of the concentration associated with a specified level of inhibition relative to control responses. Current U.S. EPA estimation methods (linear interpolation or probit-based methods) ar...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Hughes MR,Bailer AJ,Denton DL

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Australia, the collection of estuarine invertebrates from the field for whole-sediment toxicity tests is hindered because of temporal variability in their population densities and distributions. The present study aimed to develop culturing procedures for Melita plumulosa (Zeidler), an epibenthic and intertidal, dep...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Hyne RV,Gale SA,King CK

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, concern has been growing that numerous manmade chemicals entering the environment are capable of mimicking endogenous hormones in wildlife. In an attempt to define and evaluate the possible impact of endocrine-disrupting substances (EDS) on insects, three vertebrate hormones were tested for their effe...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Kirkbride-Smith AE,Bell HA,Edwards JP

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The desorption behavior of benzidine from Lake Macatawa (Holland, MI, USA) sediment was investigated in this study using batch solvent extraction method. Seven solvents were tested as the extracting reagents: Deionized water (DI), calcium chloride in DI (CaCl2), sodium hydroxide in DI (NaOH), acetonitrile (ACN), a mix...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Chen S,Nyman MC

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00