A stress ecology framework for comprehensive risk assessment of diffuse pollution

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 406, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 479-483

  van Straalen, Nico M ^a   van Gestel, Cornelis A M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Community; Ecosystem; Multivariate analysis; Risk assessment; Stress ecology; Weight of evidence

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CONTAMINATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; POLLUTION; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEDIMENTATION; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

COMMUNITY; ECOSYSTEM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STRESS ECOLOGY; WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE;

RISK ASSESSMENT; POLLUTION;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTION EFFECT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONTAMINATION; DETRITIVORE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INVERTEBRATE; LAND BIOME; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT; STRESS;

ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

INVERTEBRATA;

ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCE; COMMUNITY; ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTIONS; MODERATE CONCENTRATION; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS; WEIGHT OF EVIDENCES;

EID: 53549125795     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.06.054     Document Type: Article

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