Ecological risk assessment: From book-keeping to chemical stress ecology

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 8999-9004

  Van Den Brink, Paul J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY;

BOOK-KEEPING; CHEMICAL STRESS; ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT; EFFECT OF CHEMICALS; SINGLE SPECIES;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

CHEMICAL ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; POLLUTION EFFECT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 58149173396     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es801991c     Document Type: Review

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