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List of works by Vincent Pettigrove

A National Survey of Trace Organic Contaminants in Australian Rivers

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A field-based microcosm method to assess the effects of polluted urban stream sediments on aquatic macroinvertebrates

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A microcosm test of adaptation and species specific responses to polluted sediments applicable to indigenous chironomids (Diptera).

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A new record of 'Cnephia umbratorum' (Tonnoir) (Diptera: Simuliidae) and 'Apsectrotanypus pallipes' (Freeman) comb. n. (Diptera: Chironomidae) from the Otway Ranges, Victoria

scientific article published in March 1989

A short work-flow to effectively source faecal pollution in recreational waters – A case study

scientific article published on 23 July 2018

A trait database of stream invertebrates for the ecological risk assessment of single and combined effects of salinity and pesticides in South-East Australia

scientific article published on 4 March 2011

Altered reproductive behaviours in male mosquitofish living downstream from a sewage treatment plant

scientific article published on 12 February 2014

An assessment of endocrine activity in Australian rivers using chemical and in vitro analyses.

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Associations between microplastic pollution and land use in urban wetland sediments

scientific article published on 04 June 2019

Bifenthrin Causes Toxicity in Urban Stormwater Wetlands: Field and Laboratory Assessment Using Austrochiltonia (Amphipoda).

scientific article published on 11 May 2017

Class 1 integrons in benthic bacterial communities: abundance, association with Tn402-like transposition modules and evidence for coselection with heavy-metal resistance.

scientific article published on 2 December 2009

Combining rapid bioassessment and field-based microcosms for identifying impacts in an urban river

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DNA identification of urban Tanytarsini chironomids (Diptera:Chironomidae)

article published in 2007

Detecting copper toxicity in sediments: from the subindividual level to the population level

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Development of whole-sediment toxicity identification and evaluation (TIE) techniques for two Australian freshwater species: Chironomus tepperi and Austrochiltonia subtenuis

scientific article published on 7 March 2017

Ecological evidence links adverse biological effects to pesticide and metal contamination in an urban Australian watershed

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Effects of long-chain hydrocarbon-polluted sediment on freshwater macroinvertebrates

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Effects of pesticide toxicity, salinity and other environmental variables on selected ecosystem functions in streams and the relevance for ecosystem services

scientific article published on 29 July 2011

Effects of pesticides monitored with three sampling methods in 24 sites on macroinvertebrates and microorganisms

scientific article published on 19 January 2011

Effects of sediment quality on macroinvertebrates in the Sunraysia region of the Murray-Darling Rivers, Australia

scientific article published on 25 July 2008

Environmental DNA Metabarcoding Supporting Community Assessment of Environmental Stressors in a Field-Based Sediment Microcosm Study

scientific article published on 26 November 2018

Environmental fate of fungicides in surface waters of a horticultural-production catchment in southeastern Australia

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Evaluating freshwater mining sediment toxicity in Tasmania: Achieving strong multiple lines of evidence

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Genes involved in cysteine metabolism of Chironomus tepperi are regulated differently by copper and by cadmium

scientific article published on 3 March 2014

Herbicides and trace metals in urban waters in Melbourne, Australia (2011-12): concentrations and potential impact

scientific article published on 19 January 2017

High molecular weight petroleum hydrocarbons differentially affect freshwater benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages

scientific article published in May 2008

Horticultural Use of Copper-Based Fungicides Has Not Increased Copper Concentrations in Sediments in the Mid- and Upper Yarra Valley

Identification of microplastics in surface water and Australian freshwater shrimp Paratya australiensis in Victoria, Australia

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

Improvements and cost-effective measures to the automated intermittent water renewal system for toxicity testing with sediments

scientific article published on 3 January 2018

Investigation of 10 herbicides in surface waters of a horticultural production catchment in southeastern Australia

scientific article published on 17 June 2014

Isolating the impact of sediment toxicity in urban streams

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Metabolomic Profiles of a Midge (Procladius villosimanus, Kieffer) Are Associated with Sediment Contamination in Urban Wetlands

scientific article published on 18 December 2017

Microplastics biomonitoring in Australian urban wetlands using a common noxious fish (Gambusia holbrooki)

scientific article published on 17 April 2019

Municipal wastewater effluent licensing: A global perspective and recommendations for best practice.

scientific article published on 22 December 2016

New approaches to the ecological risk assessment of multiple stressors

No evidence of exposure to environmental estrogens in two feral fish species sampled from the Yarra River, Australia: A comparison with Northern Hemisphere studies.

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Pesticide and trace metal occurrence and aquatic benchmark exceedances in surface waters and sediments of urban wetlands and retention ponds in Melbourne, Australia

scientific article published on 21 February 2015

Phylogeography of the yellowfin goby Acanthogobius flavimanus in native and non-native distributions

scientific article published in 2017

Potentially Toxic Concentrations of Synthetic Pyrethroids Associated with Low Density Residential Land Use

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REVIEW: Identifying, preventing and mitigating ecological traps to improve the management of urban aquatic ecosystems

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Resolving the false-negative issues of the nonpolar organic amendment in whole-sediment toxicity identification evaluations.

scientific article published on 21 December 2017

Screening for potential effects of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in peri-urban creeks and rivers in Melbourne, Australia using mosquitofish and recombinant receptor-reporter gene assays

scientific article published on 21 September 2012

Sensitive community responses of microbiota to copper in sediment toxicity test

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Separating the effects of water physicochemistry and sediment contamination on Chironomus tepperi (Skuse) survival, growth and development: a boosted regression tree approach.

scientific article published on 24 March 2014

Temporal and spatial variations of microplastics in roadside dust from rural and urban Victoria, Australia: Implications for diffuse pollution

scientific article published on 27 March 2020

The occurrence of microplastic in specific organs in commercially caught fishes from coast and estuary area of east China

scientific article published on 13 November 2018

Towards Sustainable Environmental Quality: Priority Research Questions for the Australasian Region of Oceania

scientific article published on 13 September 2019

Toxicant mixtures in sediment alter gene expression in the cysteine metabolism of Chironomus tepperi

scientific article published on 30 July 2016

What types of enzyme activities are useful biomarkers of bifenthrin exposure on Chironomus sp. (Diptera, Chironomidae) larvae under laboratory and field-based microcosm conditions?

scientific article published on 06 September 2020