Author:
Wong P. T. S.,Chau Y. K.,Kramar O.,Bengert G. A.
Abstract
The effects of a number of inorganic and organic tin compounds on pure cultures of green and blue-green algae and natural phytoplankton in lake water were tested. Organic tin compounds were generally more inhibitory to primary production and reproduction of the algae than inorganic tin compounds. The toxicity of organotin compounds varied considerably with the number and nature of the organic groups attached to tin, with trialkyl tin compounds being the most toxic forms. Within a given alkyl tin compound series, the longer the carbon chain, the higher the toxicity. A direct relationship between toxicity and partition coefficients of trialkyl tin compounds was observed. Other tin compounds had no such direct relationship.Key words: algae, tin, toxicity, partition coefficients
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
Subject
Aquatic Science,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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137 articles.
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