Reconsidering environmental effects assessment of chemicals: Proposal for a dynamic testing strategy

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 356-364

  Junghans, Marion ^a   Schaefer, Maike ^b   Drost, Wiebke ^a   Hassold, Enken ^a   Stock, Frauke ^b   Dünne, Matthias ^b   Juffernholz, Tanja ^b   Meyer, Wiebke ^a   Ranke, Johannes ^b  

^a Institute for Cell Biology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

ACR; Biotests; Budget; Effects assessment; Multispecies tests; Structure activity relationships; Substance groups; Test battery; Time

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 44449162712     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2007.08.011     Document Type: Article

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