A probabilistic model for deriving soil quality criteria based on secondary poisoning of top predators: I. Model description and uncertainty analysis

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 264-278

  Traas, T P ^a   Luttik, R ^a   Jongbloed, R H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 NITROANISOLE; ALDRIN; AMINOPHENAZONE; ANILINE; CADMIUM; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; ETHOXYRESORUFIN; LINDANE; METALLOTHIONEIN; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIRD; FOOD CHAIN; MAMMAL; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PROBABILITY; SOIL POLLUTION; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030220372     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/eesa.1996.0071     Document Type: Article

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