Meeting the challenge of identifying persistent pollutants at the state level

Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 735-748

  Hope, Bruce K ^a   Stone, David ^b   Fuji, Taku ^c   Gensemer, Robert W ^d   Jenkins, Jeffrey ^b  

^a Oregon Department Environmental Quality   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Kennedy/Jenks Consultants   (United States)

^d GEI Consultants   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic ecosystems; Bioaccumulative; PBT; Persistent; POP; Toxic chemicals

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; METHODOLOGY; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECOTOXICOLOGY; OREGON; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 79952117939     PISSN: 15513793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ieam.94     Document Type: Article

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