Uncertainty and variability in risk from trophic transfer of contaminants in dredged sediments

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 274, Issue 1-3, 2001, Pages 255-269

  Linkov, Igor ^a   Von Stackelberg, Katherine E ^a   Burmistrov, Dmitriy ^a   Bridges, Todd S ^b  

^a Menzie Cura and Associates   (United States)

^b U S ARMY   (United States)

Author keywords

2 D Monte Carlo simulations; Bioaccumulation; Ecological risk assessment; Probabilistic risk assessment; Uncertainty; Variability

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; IMPURITIES; LIPIDS; MICROORGANISMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY;

TROPHIC TRANSFER;

SEDIMENTS;

LIPID; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; WATER;

BIOACCUMULATION; BODY FAT; BODY WEIGHT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFERENCE PAPER; DECISION MAKING; DREDGING; ECOLOGY; ERROR; EXPOSURE; FEEDING; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; MANAGEMENT; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; NONHUMAN; POLLUTANT; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TOXICITY; UNITED STATES; VARIABILITY; VARIANCE;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISHES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW JERSEY; NEW YORK; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEAWATER; TOXICOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 0035796776     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(01)00747-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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