ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality

Because of increasing global concern over the consequences of marine and aquatic pollution, a separate volume addressing this subject was added to the ASFA series. ASFA 3 is the only abstracts journal devoted exclusively to research and policy on the contamination of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and estuaries. ASFA 3 contains information that will prove essential to specialists who deal in any capacity with aquatic environments and marine pollution problems, including biologists, oceanographers, limnologists, environmental engineers and scientists, industrial engineers, waste managers, corporate regulatory affairs managers, and government officials.

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Subject Coverage

Major areas of coverage include:

Aquatic Pollution:
Methods and Instruments
Characteristics, Behavior, and Fate
Effects on Organisms
Prevention and Control
Environmental Quality:
Environmental Changes, Mechanical and Natural
Protective Measures and Control
Conservation, Wildlife Management,and Recreation
Public Health, Medicines, and Dangerous Organisms

Dates of Coverage

1990 - current

Update Frequency

Monthly, with approximately 588 new records added

Size

Over 153,190 records as of February 2007

Print Equivalent

ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality ISSN 1045-6031 (biweekly)

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Sample Record

TI:	Title Effect of diflubenzuron on the maturation and reproductive success of the copepod Eurytemora affinis
AU:	Author Wright, DA; Savitz, JD; Dawson, R; Magee, J; Smucker, RA
AF:	Author Affiliation Univ. Maryland System Cent. for Environ. and Estuarine Stud., Chesapeake Biol. Lab., PO Box 38, Solomons, MD 20688, USA
SO:	Source ECOTOXICOLOGY, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 47-58, 1996
IS:	ISSN 0963-9292
AB:	Abstract The insect growth regulator diflubenzuron (DFB) may have substantial effects on non-target organisms, especially crustaceans. By targeting the moulting process, DFB would be expected to elicit the most obvious effects on subadult crustaceans which moult frequently. Previous studies in this laboratory have demonstrated acute and chronic effects of DFB on survival and development of nauplii of the estuarine copepod Eurytemora affinis at water concentrations of less than 1 p.p.b. The present study examines the effects on maturation to adulthood and brood production. Effects on brood production were observed at 0.8 p.p.b. DFB in individuals exposed only during the copepodite stages. Significant effects on production of nauplii were documented only in the early exposure to 0.93 p.p.b. DFB. Inability of post-moult copepodites to completely cast exuviae also was documented in the exposed treatments. At salinities of 2, 10 and 15 p.p.t., survival from naupliar to adult stages was significantly reduced at 0.84 p.p.b. and none survived to adulthood at 1.7 p.p.b. These results suggest that DFB has substantial effects on survival and development of E. affinis at a water concentration of less than 1 p.p.b. DFB concentrations exceeding this concentration have been reported from Chesapeake Bay surface waters although there is no current evidence of potentially toxic concentrations overlapping with the known distribution of E. affinis in the bay.
LA:	Language English
SL:	Summary Language English
PY:	Publication Year 1996
PT:	Publication Type Journal Article
DE:	Descriptors diflubenzuron; reproduction; Eurytemora affinis; insecticides; pesticides; maturation; pollution effects; Copepoda; estuarine organisms; molting
ER:	Environmental Regime Marine
TR:	ASFA Input Center Number CS9613918
CL:	Classification X 24132 Chronic exposure; Q5 01504 Effects on organisms; O 4020 Pollution - Organisms/Ecology/Toxicology; P 6000 TOXICOLOGY AND HEALTH
SF:	Subfile Toxicology Abstracts; ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution & Environmental Quality; Oceanic Abstracts; Pollution Abstracts
AN:	Accession Number 3908005

Field Codes

The following field codes are found in the records of this database. Here they are listed in alphabetical order by two-letter code.

AB = Abstract	IS = ISSN
AF = Author Affiliation	LA = Language
AN = Accession Number	NT = Notes
AU = Authors	NU = Other Numbers
CA = Corporate Author	OT = Original Title
CF = Conference	PB = Publisher
CL = Classification Code	PT = Publication Type
DE = Descriptors	PY = Publication Year
ED = Editor	SF = Subfile Name
EM = Entry Month	SL = Summary Language
ER = Environmental Regime	SO = Source
IB = ISBN	TI = Title
ID = Identifiers	TR = ASFA Input Center Number

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