Generalized Haber's Law for Exponential Concentration Decline, with Application to Riparian-Aquatic Pesticide Ecotoxicity

Risk Analysis

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 250-258

  Bogen, Kenneth T ^a   Reiss, Richard ^a  

^a EXPONENT INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Close response; Concentration; EC50; LC50; Modeling; Organophosphates; Salmonids; Survival; Time

Indexed keywords

CLOSE-RESPONSE; EC50; LC50; ORGANOPHOSPHATES; SALMONIDS; SURVIVAL; TIME;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

PESTICIDES;

ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND; PESTICIDE;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DILUTION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; ECOTOXICOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALMONID; STREAMWATER; SURVIVAL; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

ARTICLE; POLLUTANT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PESTICIDES;

SALMONIDAE;

EID: 84857114990     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2011.01663.x     Document Type: Article

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