Biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services in environmental risk assessment: Introduction to the special issue

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 415, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-2

  Schäfer, Ralf B ^a  

^a France   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecosystem functions; Ecosystem services; Pollution; Toxicants

Indexed keywords

CURRENT MONITORING; ECOLOGICAL MODELS; ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT; SERVICE-BASED; TOXICANTS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIODIVERSITY; PESTICIDES; POLLUTION; RATING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SOIL POLLUTION; STAKEHOLDER;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALINITY; SEDIMENT; TURBIDITY;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84855855788     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.08.012     Document Type: Article

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