Pesticides biotests

The objective of another project was to evaluate the level of pollution in water and sediments in Lake Turawskie, a storage reservoir built in the 1930s on the Mala Panew River in southwestern Poland, and then to search for a correlation between the analytical chemical results and the toxicity parameters estimated from the application of biotests. Polluted waters as well as large amounts of polluted sediments enter the reservoir from the Mala Panew and its tributary, the Libawa. Industrial activities in the river basin include silver, zinc, and lead processing plants, steel and glass manufacture, and the production of cellulose and chemicals. Agriculture presents a further potential threat (e.g., fertilizer and pesticide run-off), as does the use of the reservoir s banks for recreational purposes. 

Altenburger R, Bodeker W, Faust M, Grime LH. 1990. Evaluation of the isobologram method for the assessment of mixtures of chemicals combination effect studies with pesticides in algal biotests. Ecotoxicol Environ Safety 20 98-114. 

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