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  • Titel: Toxicity of copper‐spiked sediments to Tubifex tubifex (oligochaeta, tubificidae): Comparison of the 28‐day reproductive bioassay with an early‐life‐stage bioassay
  • Beteiligte: Vecchi, Martina; Reynoldson, Trefor B.; Pasteris, Andrea; Bonomi, Giuliano
  • Erschienen: Wiley, 1999
  • Erschienen in: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620180615
  • ISSN: 0730-7268; 1552-8618
  • Schlagwörter: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ; Environmental Chemistry
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Two sediment bioassay methods using <jats:italic>Tubifex tubifex</jats:italic> (Müller, 1774) as the test species were compared. The first was an adult reproduction test, the second an early‐life‐stage survival test. The duration of both bioassays is 28 d and the amount of work required was similar; they may be useful alternatives to each other in different circumstances (e.g., the early life stage bioassay could be carried out with smaller volumes of sediment). The two bioassays were performed simultaneously on copper‐spiked sediments. Sediments from two freshwater and two terrestrial sites were used; five separate, nonsimultaneous experiments were performed, one for each sediment or soil and a further experiment with soil with a food supplement. In the adult bioassay, there were large differences in the production of cocoons, eggs, and young among the control treatments of the five experiments. There were also major differences in the NOEC (no‐observed‐effect concentration) and LOEC (lowest‐observed‐effect concentration) for copper between the tested substrates. The early life stage bioassay appears to be less sensitive to copper toxicity than the adult reproductive bioassay since NOECs and LOECs are higher for early survival than for the most sensitive endpoints of the adult bioassay in three experiments out of five.</jats:p>