The general status of whole effluent toxicity (WET) tests is assessed relative to their
generally accepted purpose of identifying, characterizing, and eliminating toxic effects of …

The toxic effects of lindane on the zooplankton communities may be strongly related to the
population fitness, which is highly dependent on food availability. In order to test this …

Several techniques have been developed to assess the ecotoxicity of contaminated
watercourses. Most of these techniques involve chemical alterations of water samples, by …

Effects of copper or zinc (0, 25, 50, 100, 200 and 400mgkg− 1) on soil containing an
indigenous nematode community were examined in a greenhouse in the presence or …

Seasonal variations in plankton community response to pentachlorophenol (PCP) were
studied in four mesocosm experiments using enclosures in a small lake. The mesocosms …

We evaluated the sensitivity of larval sea lampreys Petromyzon marinus to the lampricide 3-
trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol (TFM) in a series of toxicity tests in spring and summer …

The suitability for laboratory culture and comparative sensitivity of three species of New
Zealand freshwater copepod (Calamoecia lucasi Brady, Boeckella delicata Percival, and …

Different renewal diet frequency procedures of Ceriodaphnia dubia were evaluated with
different culture stages: intervening cultures and pilot tests (equivalent to controls in a …

Conventional bioassays in aquatic toxicology are time and space consuming and depend
on the continuous culture and maintenance of the test species. Since Toxkit microbiotests do …

Little information is available concerning the effect of salinity adjustment on effluent storage
and toxicity identification evaluation (TIE) performance. These factors are important for …