Baseline ecological risk assessment of the Calcasieu Estuary, Louisiana: Part 1. Overview and problem formulation

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-13

  MacDonald, Donald D ^a   Moore, Dwayne R J ^b   Ingersoll, Christopher G ^c   Smorong, Dawn E ^a   Carr, R Scott ^d   Gouguet, Ron ^e   Charters, David ^f   Wilson, Duane ^g   Harris, Tom ^g   Rauscher, Jon ^f   Roddy, Susan ^f   Meyer, John ^f  

^a MacDonald Environmental Sciences Ltd   (United States)

^b Intrinsik Environmental Sciences Inc   (United States)

^c Jackson Field Research Station   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e Syracuse   (United States)

^f U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^g Louisiana Dept of Environ Quality   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,2 DICHLOROETHANE; ACETONE; ALDRIN; AMMONIA; BENZENE; CARBON DISULFIDE; CHLOROPHENOL; CHROMIUM; COPPER; CYANIDE; DIELDRIN; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; ETHANE; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; LEAD; MERCURY; NICKEL; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; PESTICIDE; PHTHALIC ACID; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; TRICHLOROETHANE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; WATER; ZINC;

BASELINE CONDITIONS; BENTHOS; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; GUIDELINE; INVERTEBRATE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEAWATER; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; WILD POPULATION;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; BENTHOS; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONCEPT FORMATION; ECOLOGY; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EROSION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ESTUARY; FISHING; GEOGRAPHY; HABITAT; INGESTION; MEASUREMENT; MICROFLORA; MICROINVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PH; PLANT ECOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALINITY; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION; SOIL POLLUTION; SPECIES INTRODUCTION; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER TEMPERATURE; WATERSHED;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INVERTEBRATES; LOUISIANA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CALCASIEU ESTUARY; CALCASIEU RIVER; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; LAKE CHARLES; LOUISIANA; UNITED STATES;

BRYOPHYTA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 79952991169     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: 14320703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-010-9636-9     Document Type: Review

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