The Effect of Mirex on the Burrowing Activity of the Lugworm (Arenicola cristata)
- 1 November 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
- Vol. 105 (6) , 700-703
- https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8659(1976)105<700:teomot>2.0.co;2
Abstract
An inexpensive bioassay system was developed to estimate pollutant effects on a benthic animal. Mirex, a fire ant toxicant, was taken into the substrate by the burrowing and feeding activity of A. cristata and significantly affected this activity. Mirex was present in the adult worm as well as in its juvenile stage.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: