Predicting toxicity in marine sediments with numerical sediment quality guidelines

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 714-727

  Long, Edward R ^a   Field, L Jay ^a   MacDonald, Donald D ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MacDonald Environ Sciences Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

Sediment quality guidelines Predictive ability Laboratory toxicity tests

Indexed keywords

TRACE METAL;

MARINE SEDIMENT; SEDIMENT QUALITY; TOXICITY;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA ANALYSIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SEDIMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 0031958662     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1998)017<0714:PTIMSW>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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