What is the relationship between whole effluent toxicity and instream biological condition?

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 158-168

  Diamond, Jerome ^a   Daley, Christiana ^a  

^a TETRA TECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioassessment; Effluent; Invertebrates; Toxicity testing; Weight of evidence

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; EFFLUENT; TOXICITY TEST;

ACUTE TOXICITY; AQUATIC FAUNA; BENTHOS; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CHRONIC TOXICITY; EFFLUENT TOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TOXICITY TESTING;

CERIODAPHNIA DUBIA; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS;

EID: 0033988398     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620190119     Document Type: Review

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