| Autor: |
Mize SV; US Geological Survey, 3535 S. Sherwood Forest Blvd., Suite 120, Baton Rouge, LA 70816, USA. svmize@usgs.gov, Porter SD, Demcheck DK |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) [Environ Pollut] 2008 Mar; Vol. 152 (2), pp. 491-503. Date of Electronic Publication: 2007 Aug 13. |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.envpol.2007.03.021 |
| Abstrakt: |
Laboratory tests of fipronil and its degradation products have revealed acute lethal toxicity at very low concentrations (LC50) of <0.5 microg/L to selected aquatic macroinvertebrates. In streams draining basins with intensive rice cultivation in southwestern Louisiana, USA, concentrations of fipronil compounds were an order of magnitude larger than the LC50. The abundance (rho=-0.64; p=0.015) and taxa richness (r2=0.515, p<0.005) of macroinvertebrate communities declined significantly with increases in concentrations of fipronil compounds and rice-cultivation land-use intensity. Macroinvertebrate community tolerance scores increased linearly (r2=0.442, p<0.005) with increases in the percentage of rice cultivation in the basins, indicating increasingly degraded stream conditions. Similarly, macroinvertebrate community-tolerance scores increased rapidly as fipronil concentrations approached about 1 microg/L. Pesticide toxicity index determinations indicated that aquatic macroinvertebrates respond to a gradient of fipronil compounds in water although stream size and habitat cannot be ruled out as contributing influences. |
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MEDLINE |
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