Avoidance, biomass and survival response of soil dwelling (endogeic) earthworms to OECD artificial soil: potential implications for earthworm ecotoxicology
| العنوان: | Avoidance, biomass and survival response of soil dwelling (endogeic) earthworms to OECD artificial soil: potential implications for earthworm ecotoxicology |
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| المؤلفون: | Angus Robert Glover, Christopher Nathan Lowe, Claire Brami, Kevin R. Butt |
| المصدر: | Ecotoxicology (London, England) |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer US, 2017. |
| سنة النشر: | 2017 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Soil dwelling earthworms, Avoidance test, Soil texture, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 010501 environmental sciences, Biology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Toxicology, Ecotoxicology, 01 natural sciences, Soil, Toxicity Tests, Technical Note, Avoidance Learning, Animals, Soil Pollutants, Biomass, Oligochaeta, Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Biomass (ecology), Earthworm, C187, Octolasion cyaneum, Allolobophora chlorotica, 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences, General Medicine, Artificial soil, biology.organism_classification, Agronomy, Loam, 040103 agronomy & agriculture, 0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries, Composition (visual arts) |
| الوصف: | Soil dwelling earthworms are now adopted more widely in ecotoxicology, so it is vital to establish if standardised test parameters remain applicable. The main aim of this study was to determine the influence of OECD artificial soil on selected soil-dwelling, endogeic earthworm species. In an initial experiment, biomass change in mature Allolobophora chlorotica was recorded in Standard OECD Artificial Soil (AS) and also in Kettering Loam (KL). In a second experiment, avoidance behaviour was recorded in a linear gradient with varying proportions of AS and KL (100% AS, 75% AS + 25% KL, 50% KS + 50% KL, 25% AS + 75% KL, 100% KL) with either A. chlorotica or Octolasion cyaneum. Results showed a significant decrease in A. chlorotica biomass in AS relative to KL, and in the linear gradient, both earthworm species preferentially occupied sections containing higher proportions of KL over AS. Soil texture and specifically % composition and particle size of sand are proposed as key factors that influenced observed results. This research suggests that more suitable substrates are required for ecotoxicology tests with soil dwelling earthworms. |
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| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1573-3017 0963-9292 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::b33f3d889e47dff69bf21821a5776bdc http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5420381 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....b33f3d889e47dff69bf21821a5776bdc |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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