Lethal and sub-lethal chronic effects of the herbicide diuron on seagrass

AP Negri, F Flores, P Mercurio, JF Mueller, CJ Collier - Aquatic Toxicology, 2015 - Elsevier
… -on effects from reduced photosynthetic C incorporation, we assessed the chronic impacts
of diuron … declines in a long-term experimental exposure of seagrasses to diuron (Table 1). …

Chronic effects of the herbicide diuron on freshwater cladocerans, amphipods, midges, minnows, worms, and snails

AV Nebeker, GS Schuytema - Archives of Environmental Contamination …, 1998 - Springer
… The results indicate that chronic effect levels for all the test species in this study are above
those diuron concentrations typically found in riparian areas where it is used for weed control

Effects of the herbicide diuron on the early life history stages of coral

A Negri, C Vollhardt, C Humphrey, A Heyward… - Marine Pollution …, 2005 - Elsevier
… Higher concentrations of diuron resulted in more severe effects on photosystem II, reducing
F v /F m to only 20% of control levels by the end of the exposure period. Despite this drop, …

The impact of the herbicide diuron on photosynthesis in three species of tropical seagrass

D Haynes, P Ralph, J Prange, B Dennison - Marine pollution bulletin, 2000 - Elsevier
… The impact and recovery from exposure to the herbicide diuron [DCMU; 3-(3′,4′-… 1 diuron
resulted in a decline in effective quantum yield ( Δ F/F m ′ ) within 2 h of herbicide exposure …

Diuron exposure induces systemic and organ-specific toxicity following acute and sub-chronic exposure in male Wistar rats

A Domingues, LF Barbisan, PR Martins… - Environmental …, 2011 - Elsevier
… Due to the scarce data regarding the toxic potential of the herbicide Diuron on the immune
system, the main objective of this work was to investigate whether this agent affects the …

Effects of low concentrations of the phenylurea herbicide diuron on biofilm algae and bacteria

M Ricart, D Barceló, A Geiszinger, H Guasch… - Chemosphere, 2009 - Elsevier
… the long-term effects (29 d) of environmentally realistic concentrations of the herbicide diuron
(… The autotrophic activity of biofilms was affected by this herbicide, as reflected by a marked …

Environmental impact of diuron transformation: a review

S Giacomazzi, N Cochet - Chemosphere, 2004 - Elsevier
… and could be a potential poisoning pesticide contaminant of groundwater. Unfortunately, …
high levels of diuron exposure but the principal toxic effects of chronic ingestion of diuron were …

Effects of herbicides diuron and atrazine on corals of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

RJ Jones, J Muller, D Haynes, U Schreiber - Marine Ecology Progress …, 2003 - int-res.com
… In this study, the potential environmental effects of diuron on the … Particular attention is given
to the time-course of effect and … Ultimately, the long-term phytotoxic effects of triazine and …

The effect of the herbicide diuron on soil microbial activity

AGS Prado, C Airoldi - … Science: formerly Pesticide Science, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
… In general, pesticides that have toxic effects on soil microbial activity, such as diuron, give
rise to the possibility of adverse consequences on long-term soil fertility.7, 33 The agronomic …

Acute and chronic toxicity of diuron and carbofuran to the neotropical cladoceran Ceriodaphnia silvestrii

AS Mansano, RA Moreira, HC Dornfeld… - … Science and Pollution …, 2018 - Springer
effects on fertility were recorded for intermediate diuron concentrations. Acute and chronic
toxicity … that the insecticide carbofuran was more toxic than the herbicide diuron to C. silvestrii. …