Assessing different mechanisms of toxicity in mountaintop removal/valley fill coal mining-affected watershed samples using Caenorhabditis elegans.
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SUBMITTER: Turner EA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3774817 | biostudies-literature | 2013
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Assessing different mechanisms of toxicity in mountaintop removal/valley fill coal mining-affected watershed samples using Caenorhabditis elegans.
Turner Elena A EA Kroeger Gretchen L GL Arnold Mariah C MC Thornton B Lila BL Di Giulio Richard T RT Meyer Joel N JN
PloS one 20130916 9
Mountaintop removal-valley fill coal mining has been associated with a variety of impacts on ecosystem and human health, in particular reductions in the biodiversity of receiving streams. However, effluents emerging from valley fills contain a complex mixture of chemicals including metals, metalloids, and salts, and it is not clear which of these are the most important drivers of toxicity. We found that streamwater and sediment samples collected from mine-impacted streams of the Upper Mud River ...[more]
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