How to measure no effect. Part I: Towards a new measure of chronic toxicity in ecotoxicology. Introduction and workshop results

Environmetrics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 241-248

  Van Der Hoeven, Nelly ^a   Noppert, Frank ^b,d   Leopold, Annegaaike ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b BKH Consulting Engineers   (Netherlands)

^c NOTOX ^*  (Netherlands)

^d Ministry of Transport Public Works and Water Management Netherlands   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

chronic toxicity; ECx; NEC; NOEC; test guidelines

Indexed keywords

ECOTOXICITY TESTING; NO OBSERVED EFFECT CONCENTRATION;

EID: 0030616556     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-095X(199705)8:3<241::AID-ENV244>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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