Estimating aquatic toxicity as determined through laboratory tests of Great Lakes sediments containing complex mixtures of environmental contaminants

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 255-289

  Wildhaber, Mark L ^a   Schmitt, Christopher J ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SEDIMENTS; TOXICITY; WATER QUALITY;

AQUATIC TOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINTS; TOTAL TOXIC UNITS MODELING APPROACH;

SOIL POLLUTION;

AMMONIA; CARBON; DIOXIN; IRON; METAL; PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; CHRONIC TOXICITY; LABORATORY TEST; LAKE; MODEL; NORTH AMERICA; SEDIMENT; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER QUALITY;

BIOAVAILABILITY; CONTAMINATION; HEAVY METAL; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LAKE ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SEDIMENT CONTAMINATION; TOXICITY;

CANADA, ONTARIO, GREAT LAKES; USA, GREAT LAKES;

EID: 0030176951     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00419746     Document Type: Article

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