Making sense of ecotoxicological test results: Towards application of process-based models

Ecotoxicology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 305-314

  Jager, Tjalling ^a   Heugens, Evelyn H W ^b   Kooijman, Sebastiaan A L M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

DEBtox; Dose response modeling; Effects assessment; REACH; Toxicity testing

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; TOXICITY TEST;

DAPHNIA; ECOSYSTEM; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LC 50; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS MODEL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM; DAPHNIA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY TESTS;

ANIMALIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA;

EID: 33744748349     PISSN: 09639292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10646-006-0060-x     Document Type: Review

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