System-oriented ecotoxicological research: Which way to go?

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 406, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 530-536

  Breure, Anton M ^a,b   Groot, Mirjam ^c   Eijsackers, Herman J P ^d,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research   (Netherlands)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Diffuse contamination; Ecological risk assessment; Ecosystem functioning; System approach

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MANAGEMENT; POLLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RESEARCH; SOIL POLLUTION;

DIFFUSE CONTAMINATION; ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; SYSTEM APPROACH;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; POLLUTION EFFECT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTAMINATION; ECOSYSTEM; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; NETHERLANDS; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL QUALITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; RESEARCH; TOXICOLOGY;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM QUALITY; ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS; MANAGEMENT MEASURES; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES SENSITIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SYSTEM APPROACH;

EID: 53549100454     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.06.052     Document Type: Article

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