Evaluating the ecological significance of laboratory response data to predict population-level effects for the estruarine amphipod Ampelisca abdita

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 865-874

  Kuhn, Anne ^a   Munns Jr , Wayne R ^a   Serbst, Jonathan ^a   Edwards, Phillip ^b   Cantwell, Mark G ^a   Gleason, Timothy ^a   Pelletier, Marguerite C ^a   Berry, Walter ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b State of RI Dept of Environ Mgmt   (United States)

Author keywords

Ampelisca; Cadmium; Exposure response models; Population model

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; CONTAMINATION; ECOLOGY; ESTUARIES; EXTRAPOLATION; SEDIMENTS; TOXICITY;

MORTALITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

CADMIUM; SULFIDE;

BIOMONITORING; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; MORTALITY; POPULATION MODELING; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TOXICITY TEST;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FERTILITY; GROWTH RATE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEASUREMENT; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; SEA POLLUTION; SEDIMENT; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM; CRUSTACEA; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FORECASTING; LONGEVITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY TESTS;

AMPELISCA; AMPELISCA ABDITA; AMPHIPODA; ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036556332     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(2002)021<0865:ETESOL>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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