Design and analysis of multispecies toxicity tests for pesticide registration

Ecological Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1111-1116

  Landis, Wayne G ^a   Matthews, Robin A ^a   Matthews, Geoffrey B ^a  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community conditioning; Complexity; Mesocosm; Microcosm; Multispecies toxicity test; Multivariate statistics; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000169977     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1997)007[1111:DAAOMT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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