Reliable environmentally realistic bioassay methodologies are increasingly needed to
assess the effects of environmental pollution. This study describes two estuarine sediment …

Worldwide, estuaries are under increasing pressure from numerous contaminants. This
study aimed to identify a suitable marine harpacticoid copepod species for toxicity testing of …

Estuarine sediment contamination is a growing significant ecological issue in New Zealand.
Methods of assessing toxicity and ecological impacts in a cost effective way are currently …

The relatively short life cycles of harpacticoid copepods makes them appropriate animals for
use in tests that rapidly assess the acute, sublethal, or chronic effects of sediment …

Urban estuarine sediments are sinks to a range of contaminants of anthropogenic origin,
and a key challenge is to characterize the risk of these compounds to receiving …

Well validated and reliable biological assays using local and native species are required to
characterise the impacts of pollution on ecosystem health. We identified a native estuarine …

Both freshwater and marine sediments are sinks for many anthropogenic substances. This
may pose a risk to benthic and epibenthic organisms and it is crucial that toxicity tests that …

This appendix describes methods for testing the sub-lethal (chronic) adverse effects of
potentially contaminated sediment on the reproduction of the epibenthic harpacticoid …

Coastal urbanization supplies surrounding estuarine environments with urban-related
contaminants such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), metals and pesticide …

Copepods are largely used in toxicity tests. The nauplii of these organisms are more
sensitive to contaminants than the adult stage. The aim of the present study was to test a …