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Main Title Predator-Prey (Vole-Cricket) Interactions: The Effects of Wood Preservatives.
Author Gillett, J. W. ; Gile, J. D. ; Russell, L. K. ;
CORP Author Corvallis Environmental Research Lab., OR. ;Northrop Services, Inc., Corvallis, OR.
Year Published 1983
Report Number EPA-600/J-83-068;
Stock Number PB84-110048
Additional Subjects Crickets ; Wood preservatives ; Losses ; Creosote ; Dieldrin ; Pine wood ; Toluene ; Phenols ; Chlorine organic compounds ; Chlorine aromatic compounds ; Tin organic compounds ; Reprints ; Acheta domestica ; Predation ; Phenol/pentachloro ; Distannoxane/hexabutyl
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NTIS  PB84-110048 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
The rate of loss of crickets (Acheta domestica), with and without the presence of an adventitious predator, the gray-tailed vole (Microtus canicaudus), has been studied in Terrestrial Microcosm Chambers (TMC-II) treated with pine stakes impregnated with creosote, bis(tri-n-butyltin) oxide (TBTO), dieldrin (HEOD), pentachlorophenol (PCP) or a toluene solvent control. The first-order rate of cricket loss (-k) increased only for HEOD, to a maximum at 33 d post-treatment, with oscillations of about a 16-d period. This result infers a 'cricket-available' compartment of HEOD and/or metabolites with concentrations that must be greater than those measured in air, soil, water or plants and other biota.