Biomonitoring: Techniques for Measuring the Biological Effects of Liquid Effluents |
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acute bioassay acute toxicity tests Advantages American Petroleum Institute American Society Ames test analysis APHA approach aquatic organisms assay automated and continuous behavioral and physiological/biochemical bioaccumulation biological monitoring biomagnification biomonitoring Buikema Cairns Ceriodaphnia chemical chronic bioassays chronic tests chronic toxicity Clean Water Act commonly complex effluents compliance Daphnia determine developed dilution ecological ecosystem effects effluent limitations effluent toxicity testing environmental estimates evaluate exposure concentration fathead minnows fish flow-through freshwater Grab impacts indicator instream invertebrates laboratory LC50 value levels life-cycle macroinvertebrates measured methods microcosm mutagenicity mysid shrimp NOEL NPDES NPDES permit numerical parameters Peltier and Weber periphyton phytoplankton plankton pollution control potential predict preference/avoidance rainbow trout reference toxicant regulatory Research response Sampler sensitive Society for Testing sublethal techniques Test Duration test organisms test protocols test results test species Testing and Materials toxic pollutants variability wastewater water quality criteria water quality standards Water Res zooplankton