Finding a niche for soil microbial toxicity tests in ecological risk assessment

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (HERA)

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 715-727

  Efroymson, Rebecca A ^a   Suter II, Glenn W ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment endpoint; Microorganism; Soil; Soil contamination

Indexed keywords

EID: 22844455645     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.1999.9657736     Document Type: Article

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