New generation water quality guidelines for ecosystem protection

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 347-359

  Hart, Barry T ^a   Maher, Bill ^a   Lawrence, Ian ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ecosystem protection; Guidelines; Risk assessment; Water quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032940407     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1999.00435.x     Document Type: Article

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