Coastal Marine Institute: Development and Application of a Sublethal Toxicity Test to PAH Using Marine Harpacticoid Copepods

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are ubiquitous contaminants in aquatic environments. Because of their hydrophobicity, PAHs accumulate in bed sediments and pose risk to the benthos. Informations on the toxicity of sediment-associated PAHs is, however, limited and more information is needed to improve sediment quality-criteria and eoological risk analysis.