Avoidance behavior and swimming activity of fish to detect pH changes
Usually, the initial response of an animal to an environmental perturbation is changing its behavior. With fish, this may hold an alteration in swimming activity or reactions like avoidance or attraction. The usefulness of fish behavior to detect the changes in chemical water quality was recognized more than 70 years ago. Since that time, many laboratory studies have been performed on the behavioral reactions of aquatic organisms to pollutants, including those resulting from pH changes. However, still there is no conclusive evidence that fish behavior offers an adequate tool to detect chemical pollution. In this study, the use of R-value for swimming activity and D/sup 2/-value for avoidance behavior of toxic warning methods to indicate the development of toxic condition is discussed based on experimental data on pH effects.
- Research Organization:
- Yamanashi Univ., Kofu, Japan
- OSTI ID:
- 6788045
- Journal Information:
- Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol.; (United States), Vol. 37:6
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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FISHES
PHYSIOLOGY
PH VALUE
BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS
AVOIDANCE
CALCIUM CARBONATES
EXERCISE
WATER QUALITY
ALKALINE EARTH METAL COMPOUNDS
ANIMALS
AQUATIC ORGANISMS
BEHAVIOR
CALCIUM COMPOUNDS
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBONATES
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
VERTEBRATES
560300* - Chemicals Metabolism & Toxicology