Standardized toxicity testing may underestimate ecotoxicity: Environmentally relevant food rations increase the toxicity of silver nanoparticles to Daphnia.
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DOI: 10.1002/etc.3869
Abstract: Daphnia in the natural environment experience fluctuations in algal food supply, with periods when algal populations bloom and seasons when Daphnia have very little algal food. Standardized chronic toxicity tests, used for ecological risk assessment,… read more here.
Keywords: silver nanoparticles; relevant food; toxicity; food rations ... See more keywords