TY - JOUR
T1 - Adult vertebrate behavioural aquatic toxicology
T2 - reliability and validity
AU - Parker, Matthew
N1 - Accepted/In press1 Sep 2015
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - Current advances the ability to assay adult aquatic vertebrate behaviour are potentially very useful to aquatic toxicologists wishing to characterise the effects of pollutants on behaviour, cognition or neurodevelopment. This review considers two specific challenges faced by researchers wishing to exploit these technologies: maximising reliability and validity. It will suggest two behavioural procedures, with the potential for automation and high-throughput implementation, which can be used to measure social cohesion and anxiety, two areas of interest in behavioural aquatic toxicology. In addition, the review will make recommendations about how these procedures (and others) could be carried out to maximise reliability and validity.
AB - Current advances the ability to assay adult aquatic vertebrate behaviour are potentially very useful to aquatic toxicologists wishing to characterise the effects of pollutants on behaviour, cognition or neurodevelopment. This review considers two specific challenges faced by researchers wishing to exploit these technologies: maximising reliability and validity. It will suggest two behavioural procedures, with the potential for automation and high-throughput implementation, which can be used to measure social cohesion and anxiety, two areas of interest in behavioural aquatic toxicology. In addition, the review will make recommendations about how these procedures (and others) could be carried out to maximise reliability and validity.
KW - WNU
U2 - 10.1016/j.aquatox.2015.09.001
DO - 10.1016/j.aquatox.2015.09.001
M3 - Article
SN - 0166-445X
VL - 170
SP - 323
EP - 329
JO - Aquatic Toxicology
JF - Aquatic Toxicology
ER -