Automated quality assurance checks on model structure in ecological risk assessments

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (HERA)

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 558-569

  Ferson, Scott ^a  

^a APPLIED BIOMATHEMATICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioaccumulation; Constraints; Correlations; Feasibility; Guidelines; Quality assurance; Trophic interactions; Units

Indexed keywords

EID: 26444590027     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039609383632     Document Type: Article

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