Toxicity bioassays for ecological risk assessment in arid and semiarid ecosystems

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 168, Issue , 2001, Pages 43-98

  Markwiese, James T ^a   Ryti, Randall T ^a   Hooten, Mark M ^a   Michael, Daniel I ^a   Hlohowskyj, Ihor ^b  

^a Neptune and Company   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOASSAY; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; POLLUTANT; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOXICITY TESTS;

EID: 0042710936     PISSN: 01795953     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-0143-1_2     Document Type: Article

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