Indices of benthic community tolerance in contaminated Great Lakes sediments: Relations with sediment contaminant concentrations, sediment toxicity, and the sediment quality triad

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-49

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

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benthic community tolerance; Sediment; Sediment quality triad; Toxic units; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT WATER QUALITY CRITERIA; BENTHIC COMMUNITY TOLERANCE INDICES; SEDIMENT QUALITY TRIAD; SEDIMENT TOXIC UNITS;

CALCULATIONS; ECOSYSTEMS; HAZARDS; IMPURITIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENTS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL POLLUTION CONTROL; STANDARDS; TOXICITY; WATER;

ECOLOGY;

DIOXIN; PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

BENTHIC COMMUNITY; LAKE SEDIMENT; POLLUTION TOLERANCE;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; LAKE; NONHUMAN; SEDIMENT; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

NORTH AMERICA, GREAT LAKES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031962768     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005716111754     Document Type: Article

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