Soil contact bioassay for rapid determination of acute toxicity with Eisenia foetida

A rapid bioassay is presented for determining acute toxicity directly in soil. Modifying the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) protocol 207, it uses a thin layer of moistened soil laid directly in the bottom of the bioassay jar into which the earthworms are placed and incu...

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Main Authors: Verónica I. Domínguez-Rodríguez, Randy H. Adams, Fabián Sánchez-Madrigal, José de los S. Pascual-Chablé, Rodolfo Gómez-Cruz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-01-01
Series:Heliyon
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844019367908