Forecasting risk along a river basin using a probabilistic and deterministic model for environmental risk assessment of effluents through ecotoxicological evaluation and GIS

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 294-303

  Gutiérrez, Simón ^a   Fernandez, Carlos ^a   Barata, Carlos ^b   Tarazona, José Vicente ^a  

^a INIA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

Daphnia magna feeding test; Effluent; Predicted environmental concentration; Probabilistic risk assessment

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC SPECIES; COMPUTER MODELS; DAPHNIA MAGNA; DETERMINISTIC AND PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; DETERMINISTIC MODELS; ECOTOXICITY TEST; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL; EFFLUENT TOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT; FEEDING TESTS; FLOW DATA; GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MODEL INPUTS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; POTENTIAL RISKS; PREDICTED ENVIRONMENTAL CONCENTRATIONS; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; PROBABILISTIC APPROXIMATION; PROBABILISTIC RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK COMMUNICATION; RIVER BASINS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVE SPECIES; SPME-GC/MS; SUBLETHAL EFFECTS; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WATER FLOWS; WATER VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS; WORST CASE SCENARIO;

AQUACULTURE; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); EFFLUENTS; FEEDING; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; RIVERS; SEWAGE; TESTING; TOXICITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATERSHEDS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

AQUATIC ORGANISM; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; GIS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER BASIN; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; TOXICITY TEST;

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAPHNIA; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EFFLUENT TOXICITY; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER BASIN; SEASONAL VARIATION; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; ECOTOXICOLOGY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVERS; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; HENARES RIVER; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

DAPHNIA MAGNA;

EID: 71749118348     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.09.053     Document Type: Article

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