Chronology of the development of sediment quality assessment methods in North America

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

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 311-343

  Engler, Robert M ^a   Long, Edward R ^a   Swartz, Richard C ^a   Di Toro, Dominic M ^a   Ingersoll, Christopher G ^a   Burgess, Robert M ^a   Gries, Thomas H ^a   Berry, Walter J ^a   Burton, G Allen ^a   O'Connor, Thomas P ^a   Chapman, Peter M ^a   Field, L Jay ^a   Porebskt, Linda M ^a  

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