A weight-of-evidence approach to assessing the ecological impact of organotin pollution in Dutch marine and brackish waters; combining risk prognosis and field monitoring using common periwinkles (Littorina littorea)

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 231-239

  Schipper, Cor A ^a   Smit, Mathijs G D ^b   Kaag, Nicholas H B M ^b   Dick Vethaak, A ^a  

^a DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gastropods; Harbours; Intersex; Risk assessment; Sediments; SPM; Tributyltin

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLUID MECHANICS; INTERSYMBOL INTERFERENCE; MARINE POLLUTION; ORGANOMETALLICS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SEDIMENTATION;

BRACKISH WATERS; COASTAL WATER (CW); ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS; ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT (ERA); ECOLOGICAL RISKS; FIELD MONITORING; ORGANOTIN (IV); SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SUSPENDED MATTER (SPM); TRI-BUTYL TIN (TBT);

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ORGANOTIN COMPOUND; SEA WATER;

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FIELD METHOD; HARBOR; MARINE POLLUTION; MARINE SEDIMENT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SNAIL;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA POLLUTION; SNAIL;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NETHERLANDS; ORGANOTIN COMPOUNDS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEAWATER; SHIPS; TRIALKYLTIN COMPOUNDS; VINCA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

GASTROPODA; LITTORINA LITTOREA; VINCA MINOR;

EID: 48549107254     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2008.02.070     Document Type: Article

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