Metamorphosis alters contaminants and chemical tracers in insects: implications for food webs

JM Kraus, DM Walters, JS Wesner… - … science & technology, 2014 - ACS Publications
Insects are integral to most freshwater and terrestrial food webs, but due to their
accumulation of environmental pollutants they are also contaminant vectors that threaten …

Acute toxicity of binary and ternary mixtures of Cd, Cu, and Zn to Daphnia magna

JS Meyer, JF Ranville, M Pontasch… - Environmental …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Standard static‐exposure acute lethality tests were conducted with Daphnia magna
neonates exposed to binary or ternary mixtures of Cd, Cu, and Zn in moderately hard …

Predicting toxic potencies of metal oxide nanoparticles by means of nano-QSARs

Y Mu, F Wu, Q Zhao, R Ji, Y Qie, Y Zhou, Y Hu… - …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Background: The enormous physicochemical and structural diversity of metal oxide
nanoparticles (MeONPs) poses significant challenges to the testing of their biological …

A scale of metal ion binding strengths correlating with ionic charge, Pauling electronegativity, toxicity, and other physiological effects

TB Kinraide, U Yermiyahu - Journal of inorganic biochemistry, 2007 - Elsevier
Equilibrium constants for binding to plant plasma membranes have been reported for
several metal ions, based upon adsorption studies and zeta-potential measurements. LogK …

Predicting water quality criteria for protecting aquatic life from physicochemical properties of metals or metalloids

F Wu, Y Mu, H Chang, X Zhao, JP Giesy… - … science & technology, 2013 - ACS Publications
Metals are widely distributed pollutants in water and can have detrimental effects on some
aquatic life and humans. Over the past few decades, the United States Environmental …

Contaminants in linked aquatic–terrestrial ecosystems: Predicting effects of aquatic pollution on adult aquatic insects and terrestrial insectivores

JM Kraus - Freshwater Science, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
Organisms that move across ecosystem boundaries connect food webs in apparently
disparate locations. As part of their life cycle, aquatic insects transition from aquatic larvae to …

Influence of metal ionic characteristics on their biosorption capacity by Saccharomyces cerevisiae

C Chen, J Wang - Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2007 - Springer
The influence of metal ionic characteristics on their biosorption capacity was analyzed using
quantitative structure–activity relationships model. The waste biomass of Saccharomyces …

Toxicity of metals and metal mixtures: analysis of concentration and time dependence for zinc and copper

VP Utgikar, N Chaudhary, A Koeniger, HH Tabak… - Water Research, 2004 - Elsevier
The toxic effects of heavy metals, zinc and copper, in unary and binary solutions were
studied using the Microtox® acute toxicity test which relies upon the attenuation of light …

Efficient and selective removal of Cr (VI) by the modified UiO-66-NH2 with phenothiazine-N-rhodanine from aqueous solution: performance and mechanisms

H Wang, S Wang, S Wang, L Zhang, Y Zhou… - Microporous and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the past decades, due to the worst effect of hexavalent chromium on human and
environmental health, people have been committed to removing hexavalent chromium from …

Variability of sediment-contact tests in freshwater sediments with low-level anthropogenic contamination–Determination of toxicity thresholds

S Höss, W Ahlf, C Fahnenstich, D Gilberg… - Environmental …, 2010 - Elsevier
Freshwater sediments with low levels of anthropogenic contamination and a broad range of
geochemical properties were investigated using various sediment-contact tests in order to …