Chemical and biological data from a study on sensitivity of a unionid mussel (Lampsilis siliquoidea) to a permitted effluent and elevated potassium
Description
The data release includes data from four studies: (1) toxicity of a permitted effluent, which entered the Deep Fork River (DFR), Oklahoma, USA, to a unionid mussel (Lampsilis siliquoidea) and to 2 standard test species (cladoceran Ceriodaphnia dubia; and fathead minnow Pimephales promelas) in short-term 7-d effluent tests; (2) relative sensitivities of the 3 species to potassium (K), an elevated major ion in the effluent, using 7-d toxicity tests with KCl spiked into a DFR upstream reference water; (3) potential influences of background water characteristics on the acute K toxicity to the mussel (96-h exposures) and cladoceran (48-h exposure) in 4 reconstituted waters that mimicked the hardness and ionic composition ranges of the DFR; and (4) potential influence of temperature on acute K toxicity to the mussel. Water quality, survival, growth, and reproduction endpoints are reported.
Resources
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The metadata original format |
https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.620bd6c5d34ec05caca6140b.xml |
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Landing page for access to the data |
https://doi.org/10.5066/P92YZGDX |
Tags
- fathead-minnow
- acute-toxicity
- water-quality-standards
- effluents
- usgs-620bd6c5d34ec05caca6140b
- biota
- water-quality-criteria
- freshwater-mussels
- ecotoxicology
- water-chemistry
- cladoceran
- water-quality
- fatmucket
- industrial-effluents
- effluent-toxicity
- major-ions
- contamination-and-pollution
- water-properties
- toxicity-testing