Integrating chemical and biological criteria

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2983-2991

  Pacheco, Manoel Augusto Whitaker ^a   McIntyre, Dennis Owen ^a   Linton, Tyler Keith ^a  

^a Great Lakes Environmental Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Contaminant regulation; Effect concentration; Limiting factor; Quantile regression; Water quality standard

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ECOSYSTEMS; IMPURITIES; RIVERS; STREAM FLOW; WATER QUALITY; ZINC;

CONTAMINANT REGULATION; EFFECT CONCENTRATION; LIMITING FACTOR; QUANTILE REGRESSION; WATER QUALITY STANDARD;

WATER POLLUTION CONTROL;

COPPER; METAL; ZINC;

POLLUTION CONTROL;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIELD EXPERIMENT; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION; WATER STANDARD;

BENCHMARKING; BIODIVERSITY; COPPER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REFERENCE VALUES; RIVERS; UNITED STATES; ZINC;

EID: 27144481123     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/04-624R.1     Document Type: Article

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