Ability of SQGs to estimate effects of sediment-associated contaminants in laboratory toxicity tests or in benthic community assessments

Use of Sediment Quality Guidelines and Related Tools for the Assessment of Contaminated Sediments

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 497-556

  Ingersoll, Christopher G ^a   Bay, Steven M ^a   Crane, Judy L ^a   Field, L Jay ^a   Gries, Thomas H ^a   Hyland, Jeffery L ^a   Long, Edward R ^a   MacDonald, Donald D ^a   O'Connor, Thomas P ^a  

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