Search Results - "Baird, D.J."

Structural and functional responses of benthic invertebrates to imidacloprid in outdoor stream mesocosms by Pestana, J.L.T., Alexander, A.C., Culp, J.M., Baird, D.J., Cessna, A.J., Soares, A.M.V.M.

“…Structural and functional responses of a benthic macroinvertebrate assemblage to pulses of the insecticide imidacloprid were assessed in outdoor stream…”
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Toxicity of binary mixtures of metals and pyrethroid insecticides to Daphnia magna Straus. Implications for multi-substance risks assessment by Barata, Carlos, Baird, D.J., Nogueira, A.J.A., Soares, A.M.V.M., Riva, M.C.

“…Two different concepts, termed concentration addition (CA) and independent action (IA), describe general relationships between the effects of single substances…”
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Environmental effects of the anti-sea lice (Copepoda: Caligidae) therapeutant emamectin benzoate under commercial use conditions in the marine environment by Telfer, T.C., Baird, D.J., McHenery, J.G., Stone, J., Sutherland, I., Wislocki, P.

“…Sea lice infestation can pose a particular problem to intensive cage aquaculture of salmonids. It is most often treated by therapeutants added to the water or…”
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Biochemical Factors Contributing to Response Variation among Resistant and Sensitive Clones of Daphnia magna Straus Exposed to Ethyl parathion by Barata, C., Baird, D.J., Soares, A.M.V.M., Guilhermino, L.

“…Biochemical factors contributing to response variation in five clones of Daphnia magna exposed to ethyl parathion were studied. Differences in sensitivities to…”
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Species traits as predictors for intrinsic sensitivity of aquatic invertebrates to the insecticide chlorpyrifos by Rubach, Mascha N., Baird, Donald J., Boerwinkel, Marie-Claire, Maund, Stephen J., Roessink, Ivo, Van den Brink, Paul J.

“…Ecological risk assessment (ERA) has followed a taxonomy-based approach, making the assumption that related species will show similar sensitivity to toxicants,…”
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Toxicokinetic variation in 15 freshwater arthropod species exposed to the insecticide chlorpyrifos by Rubach, Mascha N., Ashauer, Roman, Maund, Stephen J., Baird, Donald J., Van den Brink, Paul J.

“…Recent advances in modeling the processes of the toxicity of chemicals—toxicokinetics (TK) and toxicodynamics (TD)—are improving environmental risk assessment…”
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Using biological traits to predict species sensitivity to toxic substances by Baird, Donald J., Van den Brink, Paul J.

“…Species sensitivity distributions (SSD) assume that sensitivity to toxicants within target species is random. While the SSD approach has shown promise, it is…”
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Reintroducing Environmental Change Drivers in Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning Research by De Laender, Frederik, Rohr, Jason R., Ashauer, Roman, Baird, Donald J., Berger, Uta, Eisenhauer, Nico, Grimm, Volker, Hommen, Udo, Maltby, Lorraine, Meliàn, Carlos J., Pomati, Francesco, Roessink, Ivo, Radchuk, Viktoriia, Van den Brink, Paul J.

“…For the past 20 years, research on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (B-EF) has only implicitly considered the underlying role of environmental change. We…”
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Benthic macroinvertebrate flow sensitivity as a tool to assess effects of hydropower related ramping activities in streams in Ontario (Canada) by Armanini, D.G., Idigoras Chaumel, A., Monk, W.A., Marty, J., Smokorowski, K., Power, M., Baird, D.J.

“…•The Canadian Ecological Flow Index was applied to assess the ecological effects of a peaking hydropower scheme.•Data were collected in two rivers in Ontario…”
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Combining DNA and people power for healthy rivers: Implementing the STREAM community-based approach for global freshwater monitoring by Robinson, C.V., Baird, D.J., Wright, M.T.G., Porter, T.M., Hartwig, K., Hendriks, E., Maclean, L., Mallinson, R., Monk, W.A., Paquette, C., Hajibabaei, M.

“…[Display omitted] •STREAM framework facilitates enhanced DNA data generation.•Community-based DNA biomonitoring can address data deficiencies.•Environmental…”
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Development of a benthic macroinvertebrate flow sensitivity index for Canadian rivers by Armanini, D.G, Horrigan, N, Monk, W.A, Peters, D.L, Baird, D.J

“…Widespread alteration of flow regimes requires guidelines for the protection of river ecosystems based on sound science. Preservation of the biodiversity…”
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Laboratory toxicity test and post-exposure feeding inhibition using the giant freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii by Satapornvanit, Kriengkrai, Baird, D.J., Little, D.C.

“…A bioassay was developed using post-larvae of freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii (length 9–10 mm) in order to determine the toxicity of profenofos,…”
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A new method for ranking mode-specific sensitivity of freswater arthoropods to insecticides and its relationship to biological traits by Rubach, M.N, Baird, D.J, Brink, P.J., van den

“…The problem of how to deal with species sensitivity differences to toxic substances has been addressed successfully with the species sensitivity distribution…”
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The use of traits-based approaches and eco(toxico)logical models to advance the ecological risk assessment framework for chemicals by Van den Brink, Paul J, Baird, Donald J, Baveco, Hans (JM), Focks, Andreas

“…This article presents a framework to diagnose and predict the effects of chemicals, integrating 2 promising tools to incorporate more ecology into ecological…”
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Trait-Based Ecological Risk Assessment (TERA): The New Frontier by Baird, Donald J, Rubach, Mascha N, Van den Brink, Paul J

“…Traits describe the physical characteristics, ecological niche, and functional role of species within ecosystems, and trait-based approaches are now being…”
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Genetic adaptation to metal stress by natural populations of Daphnia longispina by Lopes, Isabel, Baird, Donald J., Ribeiro, Rui

“…Loss of genetic diversity in natural populations as a result of chemical contamination has been reported in some studies. Here, four field populations of…”
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Traits-based ecological risk assessment (TERA): Realizing the potential of ecoinformatics approaches in ecotoxicology by Van den Brink, Paul J, Rubach, Mascha N, Culp, Joseph M, Pascoe, Timothy, Maund, Stephen J, Baird, Donald J

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Surface binding of contaminants by algae: Consequences for lethal toxicity and feeding to Daphnia magna straus by Taylor, Graeme, Baird, Donald J., Soares, Amadeu M.V.M.

“…Freshwater algae, as with all suspended particulate matter in the water column, exhibit a net negative charge resulting in an affinity for positively charged…”
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Effects of cypermethrin on marine plankton communities: a simulated field study using mesocosms by Medina, Matı́as, Barata, Carlos, Telfer, Trevor, Baird, Donald J.

“…In earlier single-species toxicity tests we showed the negative effects on the calanoid copepod Acartia tonsa upon exposure to cypermethrin, a pesticide used…”
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Induction of Morphological Deformities and Moulting Alterations in Litopenaeus vannamei (Boone) Juveniles Exposed to the Triazole-Derivative Fungicide Tilt by Betancourt-Lozano, M, Baird, D.J, Sangha, R.S, Gonzalez-Farias, F

“…A tropical marine bioassay was developed with juveniles of Pacific white shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei, in order to test the acute and sublethal toxicity of…”
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