Is the per capita rate of increase a good measure of population-level effects in ecotoxicology?

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1544-1556

  Forbes, Valery E ^a   Calow, Peter ^b  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecological risk assessment; Life history; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

ECOTOXICOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ECOTOXICITY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0033041252     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1999)018<1544:ITPCRO>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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