Factors That Modify Toxicity, Chapter 6, Fundamentals of Aquatic Toxicology (Sprague, 1985)
This textbook chapter examines the environmental and physiological factors that modify the toxicity of aquatic pollutants to fish and other aquatic organisms, including the effects of pH, salinity, water hardness, dissolved oxygen, and the complexation of metals in natural waters.
- Date
- Document type
- Report
- Parties
- J. B. Sprague, Gary M. Rand, Sam R. Petrocelli, FMC Corporation, Springborn Bionomics, Inc., Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, McGraw-Hill International Book Company
- Locations
- Princeton, New Jersey, Wareham, Massachusetts, Washington, New York, London, Auckland, Bogotá, Guatemala, Madrid, Mexico, Hamburg, Johannesburg, Lisbon, Paris, Montreal, New Delhi, Panama, San Juan, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto
- Parameters
- toxicity, water quality, pH, salinity, water hardness, dissolved oxygen, temperature, ammonia, copper toxicity, zinc toxicity, lead toxicity, cadmium toxicity, nickel toxicity, metal toxicity, pesticides, organic pollutants, surfactant toxicity, LC50, metal complexation, ionic species, binding and sorption
- Pages
- 19
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