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PHYSIOLOGICAL IMPACT OF DREDGED SEDIMENT ON TWO BENTHIC SPECIES
Citation:
Johns, D. PHYSIOLOGICAL IMPACT OF DREDGED SEDIMENT ON TWO BENTHIC SPECIES. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/3-87/011 (NTIS PB87172151), 1987.
Description:
Several international commissions have recently called for effective short-term biological response measurements which can adequately detect the effects of environmental concentrations of contaminants. The report describes efforts to develop a direct comparison of the effects of Black Rock Harbor dredged material on the bioenergetics of juvenile Nephtys incisa exposed in the laboratory and of individuals obtained in the field from a controlled disposal of Black Rock Harbor material. In addition the effects of exposure to suspended BRH material on the bioenergetics of the mysid, Mysiodopsis bahia were also determined.