• Change text size
• Skip to content

Supervising Scientist Division

Search:

• About us
• Contact us

• Home
  • Atmosphere
  • Biodiversity
  • Coasts and marine
  • Heritage
  • Human settlements
  • Land
  • Living sustainably
  • Parks and reserves
  • Water
  • EPBC Act

• Supervising Scientist
  • About us
    • Alligator Rivers Region
    • Legislation
    • Structure of SSD
    • Services
    • Working at SSD
  • Environmental monitoring
    • Ranger - Magela chemical data
    • Ranger - Gulungul chemical data
    • Jabiluka - Ngarradj (Swift Creek) chemical data
    • Ranger - Magela biological data
    • Radon monitoring stations
    • Surface Water Chemistry Monitoring
    • Sampling maps
  • Environmental research
  • Supervision and assessment
    • Working with the Northern Territory Government
    • Environmental incidents
    • Uranium mining in the ARR
  • Keeping the community informed
    • Committees and associations
    • Consultation with indigenous communities
    • Displays
  • Publications

Download

• Development and application of the Moinodaphnia macleayi feeding rate bioassay for rapid toxicity assessment (PDF 2.5 MB)

About the report

Ecotoxicological testing provides a knowledge base from which the impact of chemicals and effluents on receiving waters can be predicted. They are also useful to screen and rank chemicals to predict their hazard and risk, determine cause-effect relationships in post-impact studies and to determine dilution coefficients of effluents prior to discharge. In principle, toxicity tests can be carried out at any level of organisation ranging from sub-cellular through to ecosystem.