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Impacts of lawn-care pesticides on aquatic ecosystems in relation to property value.
Overmyer, Jay P; Noblet, Raymond; Armbrust, Kevin L.
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  • Overmyer JP; University of Georgia, Department of Entomology, 413 Biological Sciences Building, Athens, GA 30602, USA. jayo@uga.edu
Environ Pollut ; 137(2): 263-72, 2005 Sep.
Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15869830
ABSTRACT
To determine the potential impacts of lawn-care pesticides on aquatic ecosystems, the macroinvertebrate communities of six streams were assessed using a multimetric approach. Four streams flowed through residential neighborhoods of Peachtree City, GA, USA, with differing mean property values and two reference streams were outside the city limits. A series of correlation analyses were conducted comparing stream rank from water quality and physical stream parameters, habitat assessments, benthic macroinvertebrate metric, pesticide toxicity and metal toxicity data to determine relationships among these parameters. Significant correlations were detected between individual analyses of stream rank for pesticide toxicity, specific conductance, turbidity, temperature and dissolved oxygen with benthic macroinvertebrate metrics.
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Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Pesticides / Ecosystem / Fertilizers / Poaceae / Invertebrates Limits: Animals Language: En Journal: Environ Pollut Journal subject: SAUDE AMBIENTAL Year: 2005 Document type: Article Affiliation country: Estados Unidos
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Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Pesticides / Ecosystem / Fertilizers / Poaceae / Invertebrates Limits: Animals Language: En Journal: Environ Pollut Journal subject: SAUDE AMBIENTAL Year: 2005 Document type: Article Affiliation country: Estados Unidos