Framework for interpreting sediment quality triad data

Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 589-596

  Bay, Steven M ^a   Weisberg, Stephen B ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COASTAL WATER RESEARCH PROJECT   (United States)

Author keywords

Bays; California; Data integration; Sediment quality assessment

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAY; DRUG EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVALUATION; INVERTEBRATE; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEDIMENT; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; BAYS; CALIFORNIA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INVERTEBRATES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNCERTAINTY; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84874155234     PISSN: 15513793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ieam.118     Document Type: Article

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