Completed Competitive Grant

Toxicity of pesticides adsorbed to suspended sediment to larval fish in the Cedar River

Project ID: 1998-80

Abstract

How do suspended sediment and pesticides introduced into Iowa streams and rivers by erosion of agricultural soil affect warm water fish? This study looks at how chlorpyrifos, a widely used pesticide, and suspended sediment interact with each other in river water and their effects on the survival of larval walleye.

Lead investigator: Robert C. Summerfelt, ISU Animal Ecology, et al

Year of grant completion: 2001

This competitive grant project was part of the Leopold Center's Initiative.

Topics: Water quality, quantity and management

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