An index of effluent aquatic toxicity designed by partial least squares regression, using acute and chronic tests and expert judgements

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2386-2391

  Vindimian, Éric ^a   Garric, Jeanne ^b   Flammarion, Patrick ^b   Thybaud, Éric ^a   Babut, Marc ^c  

^a Inst Natl l'Environnement I   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c Agence de l'Eau Rhin Meuse   (France)

Author keywords

Aquatic ecotoxicity; Partial least squares regression; Toxicity index; Whole effluent toxicity

Indexed keywords

TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICITY; EFFLUENT; GENOTOXICITY; LUMINESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOXICITY TESTING; VIBRIO FISCHERI; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; PHOTOBACTERIUM; VIBRIO FISCHERI; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032881804     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1999)018<2386:AIOEAT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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