Sentences with phrase «road salt affects»

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The study titled Food Quality Affects the Sensitivity of Daphnia to Road Salt, which was published recently in the peer - reviewed journal Environmental Science & Technology, found that at food concentrations below 0.6 mg of carbon per litre, chloride concentrations below the current Canadian Water Quality Guideline were lethal to the daphnia.

We set out to test how road salt alternatives and additives might affect a common urban mosquito, Culex restuans.

The research, titled «Road salt and organic additives affect mosquito growth and survival: an emerging problem in wetlands,» can be found at doi: 10.1111 / oik.04837

The researchers were surprised to learn that road salt caused a change of sex, from female to male, in tadpoles — the opposite of the feminization effect sometimes seen as pharmaceutical pollutants affect waterways.

With this background in mind, researchers in the Relyea lab at Rensselaer questioned how road salt and the insecticide carbaryl act alone and in combination to affect the structure and function of wetland food webs (carbaryl [commercial name: Sevin] is one of the most commonly applied insecticides in the United States).

«The potential consequences to amphibian populations are interesting, including the continual masculinization of frog populations for many generations in habitats contaminated with high concentrations of road salt, which could potentially affect the abundance of frogs in these habitats,» said Relyea.

«The research raises the possibility that many other aquatic species could be affected by road salts in sub-lethal ways, not only in terms of altered sex ratios, but potentially in many other traits.»

In the affected vehicles, the front lower control arms may break due to corrosion from salt water exposure such as from road salt use.