Concurrent exposure assessments of atrazine and metolachlor in the mainstem, major tributaries and small streams of the Chesapeake Bay watershed: Indicators of ecological risk

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 155-190

  Hall Jr , Lenwood W ^a   Anderson, Ronald D ^a   Kilian, Jay ^a   Tierney, Dennis P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Syngenta Crop Protection Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrazine; Chesapeake Bay; Ecological risk assessment; Herbicides; Metolachlor

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY; WATERSHEDS;

ATRAZINE; CHESAPEAKE BAY; ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; METOLACHLOR; NO OBSERVED EFFECT CONCENTRATION;

HERBICIDES;

ATRAZINE; METOLACHLOR;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; FISH; NONHUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 0344131973     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006188923956     Document Type: Article

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