Baseline ecological risk assessment of the Calcasieu Estuary, Louisiana: Part 2. An evaluation of the predictive ability of effects-based sediment-quality guidelines

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 14-28

  MacDonald, Donald D ^a   Ingersoll, Christopher G ^b   Smorong, Dawn E ^a   Sinclair, Jesse A ^a   Lindskoog, Rebekka ^c   Wang, Ning ^b   Severn, Corrine ^d   Gouguet, Ron ^e   Meyer, John ^f   Field, Jay ^g  

^a MacDonald Environmental Sciences Ltd   (Canada)

^b Jackson Field Research Station   (United States)

^c Summit Environmental Consultants Ltd   (Canada)

^d Premier Environmental Services Inc   (United States)

^e Syracuse   (United States)

^f U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^g NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPOD; BASELINE CONDITIONS; BENTHOS; GUIDELINE; INVERTEBRATE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; THRESHOLD; TOXICITY; TOXICITY TEST;

AMPELISCA ABDITA; AMPHIPODA; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; ECOLOGY; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ESTUARY; EVALUATION; HYALELLA AZTECA; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT; TOXICITY TESTING; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INVERTEBRATES; LOGISTIC MODELS; LOUISIANA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVERS; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CALCASIEU ESTUARY; LOUISIANA; UNITED STATES;

AMPELISCA ABDITA; HYALELLA AZTECA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 79958838578     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: 14320703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-010-9637-8     Document Type: Article

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