Water toxicity assessment and spatial pollution patterns identification in a Mediterranean River Basin District. Tools for water management and risk analysis

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 4269-4279

  Carafa, Roberta ^a   Faggiano, Leslie ^c   Real, Montserrat ^a   Munné, Antoni ^b   Ginebreda, Antoni ^d   Guasch, Helena ^c   Flo, Monica ^b   Tirapu, Luís ^d   der Ohe, Peter Carsten von ^e  

^a URS   (Spain)

^b Agència Catalana de l'Aigua ^*  (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

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

^e HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aquatic toxicity; Artificial Neural Networks; Risk assessment; Species Sensitivity Distribution

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MODELING TECHNIQUES; AQUATIC BIOTA; AQUATIC TOXICITY; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOAVAILABLE FRACTION; CATALAN RIVERS; CATALANS; CHEMICAL MONITORING; COMBINED TOXICITY; COMPLEX MIXTURE; COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SETS; DIATOM COMMUNITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; FIELD DATA; HOT SPOT; KOHONEN; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MACROINVERTEBRATES; MEDITERRANEAN RIVERS; MIXTURE TOXICITY; OUTPUT DATA; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; QUALITY INDICES; SAMPLING STATIONS; SELF-ORGANISING MAPS; SPECIES SENSITIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TOXIC SUBSTANCES; TOXICITY ASSESSMENT; WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVES; WATER MANAGERS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; NEURAL NETWORKS; POLLUTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RATING; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER TREATMENT; WATERSHEDS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

SURFACE WATER; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DIATOM; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EUROPEAN UNION; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOXICITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOTA; DIATOM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MICROINVERTEBRATE; PREDICTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER BASIN; SELF ORGANISING MAP; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TREND STUDY; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; RIVERS; SPAIN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

CATALAN BASIN; SPAIN;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 80052071999     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.06.053     Document Type: Article

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