Ecotoxicology - How to assess the impact of toxicants in a multi-factorial environment?

NATO Security through Science Series C: Environmental Security

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 39-56

  Segner, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ecotoxicology; Effect propagation; Interspecies extrapolation; Multiple stressors; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548425568     PISSN: 18714668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6335-0_4     Document Type: Article

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