The impact of an additional ecotoxicity test on ecological quality standards

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2037-2045

  Henning de Jong, Irmgard ^a   Ragas, Ad M J ^a   Hendriks, Harrie W M ^a   Huijbregts, Mark A J ^a,b   Posthuma, Leo ^b   Wintersen, Arjen ^b   Jan Hendriks, A ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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

Author keywords

Environmental quality standard; Probabilistic; Risk assessment; Sediment; Species sensitivity distribution; Uncertainty; Value of information

Indexed keywords

ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; BOOTSTRAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; NETHERLANDS; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SEDIMENT; SOIL POLLUTION;

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70350066157     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2009.08.009     Document Type: Article

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