Improving ecological risk assessment by including bioavailability into species sensitivity distributions: An example for plants exposed to nickel in soil

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 642-647

  Semenzin, Elena ^a   Temminghoff, Erwin J M ^b   Marcomini, Antonio ^c  

^a Consorzio Venezia Ricerche ^*  (Italy)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bioavailability; Ecological risk assessment (ERA); Heavy metals; Plant toxicity; Species sensitivity distributions (SSDs)

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHLORIDE; HEAVY METALS; NICKEL; PLANTS (BOTANY); RISK ASSESSMENT; SOILS; TOXICITY;

BIOAVAILABILITY; ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT (ERA); PLANT TOXICITY; SPECIES SENSITIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS (SSD);

ECOLOGY;

NICKEL;

BIOAVAILABILITY; CEREAL; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; NICKEL; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; TOXICITY; TOXICITY TEST;

ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; NONHUMAN; OAT; PHYTOTOXICITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPECIES SENSITIVITY DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY;

AVENA SATIVA; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; NICKEL; PLANTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TOXICITY TESTS;

AVENA SATIVA;

EID: 34249739718     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2006.11.019     Document Type: Article

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