Multiple stressor effects on benthic biodiversity of Chesapeake Bay: Implications for ecological risk assessment

Ecotoxicology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 85-99

  Preston, Benjamin L ^a,b   Shackelford, Jeremiah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Pew Center on Global Climate Change   (United States)

Author keywords

Chesapeake Bay; Ecological risk assessment; Geographic information systems; Sediment toxicity; Water quality

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRESS; TECHNIQUE; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INVERTEBRATES; MARYLAND; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEAWATER; VIRGINIA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036203929     PISSN: 09639292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014416827593     Document Type: Article

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