Predictive abilities of numerical sediment quality guidelines in Sydney Harbour, Australia, and vicinity

Environment International

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 638-649

  McCready, Stephanie ^a   Birch, Gavin F ^a   Long, Edward R ^b   Spyrakis, Gina ^a   Greely, Christopher R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ERL Environmental   (United States)

Author keywords

Predictive ability; Sediment quality guidelines; Sydney Harbour

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONTAMINATION; DATA REDUCTION; IMPURITIES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOXICITY;

PREDICTIVE ABILITY; SEDIMENT QUALITY GUIDELINES; SYDNEY HARBOUR;

SEDIMENTS;

AMPHIPOD; POLLUTANT; SEDIMENT; TOXICITY;

AMPHIPODA; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SYDNEY HARBOUR;

EID: 33646821700     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2006.02.004     Document Type: Article

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