Limitations of the current practices used to perform ecological risk assessment

Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 290-298

  Kapustka, Larry ^a  

^a LK Consultancy   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ecological scale; Ecotheocracy; Ecotoxicology; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 55249114925     PISSN: 15513793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/IEAM_2007-084.1     Document Type: Article

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