Effects of data manipulation and statistical methods on species sensitivity distributions

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 489-499

  Duboudin, Cédric ^a   Ciffroy, Philippe ^a   Magaud, Hélène ^b  

^a EDF R AND D   (France)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L ENVIRONNEMENT INDUSTRIEL ET DES RISQUES INERIS   (France)

Author keywords

Risk assessment; Species sensitivity distribution; Variability; Weighted bootstrapping

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; DATA REDUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; OCEAN HABITATS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES SENSITIVITY DISTRIBUTION (SSD);

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL DATA;

ALGA; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHRONIC TOXICITY; DATA ANALYSIS; ECOTOXICITY; HAZARD; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STATISTICS; TAXONOMY; VERTEBRATE;

ALGAE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; INVERTEBRATES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VERTEBRATES;

ALGAE; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1642539134     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/03-159     Document Type: Article

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