Effects assessment: Boron compounds in the aquatic environment

Chemosphere

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 483-487

  Schoderboeck, Lucia ^a,b   Mühlegger, Simone ^a   Losert, Annemarie ^a   Gausterer, Christian ^c   Hornek, Romana ^a,b  

^a ENVIRONMENT AGENCY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES TECHNIKUM WIEN   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Boric acid; Boron; Effects assessment; PNEC derivation; SSD

Indexed keywords

BORIC ACID; BORIDE COATINGS; BORON; HAZARDS; INDUSTRIAL POISONS; TOXICITY;

ANTHROPOGENIC INPUTS; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; BORON CONCENTRATIONS; EFFECTS ASSESSMENT; HAZARDOUS CONCENTRATIONS; PNEC DERIVATION; PREDICTED NO-EFFECT CONCENTRATIONS; SPECIES SENSITIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS;

BORIC ACID; BORON;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; AQUATIC ORGANISM; AQUATIC PLANT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BORON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; INSECT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOXICITY;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ALGA; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; AQUATIC FAUNA; AQUATIC FLORA; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CRUSTACEA; ECOSYSTEM; INSECT; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EUROPE;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 78650049543     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2010.10.031     Document Type: Article

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