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| Title | Title Freshwater shrimps as new standard test organism |
| Group | Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | variable |
| Supervisor(s) | Ivo Roessink (Wageningen Environmental Research)
Edwin Peeters |
| Examiner(s) | Edwin Peeters |
| Contact info | Edwin Peeters (0317-483899; edwin.peeters@wur.nl) |
| Begin date | 2018/02/01 |
| End date | 2020/12/31 |
| Description | Description In ecotoxicology a few standard test species are used to determine the hazard of chemicals. For aquatic invertebrates these species comprise Daphnia and Chironomus but lately the use of a macro-crustacean is discussed. Potential species could be indigenous Gammarus and Asellus species but faster reproducing Mysis shrimps or tropical Neocardinia species might be an interesting alternative. In this research the use of these two species in the lab will be investigated and their responses will be compared to the sensitivities of other aquatic invertebrates by means of Species Sensitivity Distributions. The experiments will be carried out in the laboratory at Wageningen Environmental Research in Wageningen, The Netherlands. |
| Used skills | laboratory skills |
| Requirements | students who are curious, independent and have a large doses of perseverance |