Quantitative consideration of ecosystem characteristics in an ecological risk assessment: A case study

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1805-1814

  Wallack, Rachel N ^a   Hope, Bruce K ^b  

^a GeoEngineers Inc   (United States)

^b Oregon Department Environmental Quality   (United States)

Author keywords

Algae; Atrazine; Ecological risk; Ecosystem characteristics; Joint probability risk model

Indexed keywords

ALGAE;

EID: 26844574404     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/20028091056863     Document Type: Article

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