Is the integration of hormesis and essentiality into ecotoxicology now opening Pandora's Box?

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 516-523

  Kefford, Ben J ^a   Zalizniak, Liliana ^a   Warne, Michael St J ^b   Nugegoda, Dayanthi ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Concentration response curve; Ecotoxicology theory; Essential elements; Hormesis

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; DATA REDUCTION; SEDIMENTS; WATER QUALITY;

ECOTOXICOLOGY; FITTING CONCENTRATION-RESPONSE CURVES; SEDIMENT QUALITY;

TOXICITY;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; ECOTOXICOLOGY; THEORY; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ECOTOXICOLOGY; HORMESIS; SEDIMENT; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; WATER QUALITY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ECOLOGY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TOXICITY TESTS;

EID: 38849185393     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.04.019     Document Type: Article

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