The toxicity of chemical pollutants in dynamic natural systems: The challenge of integrating environmental factors and biological complexity

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 449, Issue , 2013, Pages 253-259

  Fischer, Beat B ^a   Pomati, Francesco ^a   Eggen, Rik I L ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acclimation; Adaptation; Chemical pollutant; Environmental factor; Multiple stressor; Traits

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; ADAPTATION; CHEMICAL POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; MULTIPLE STRESSORS; TRAITS;

POLLUTION;

BIOLOGY;

ACCLIMATION; BIOTIC FACTOR; COMPLEXITY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DYNAMIC ENERGY MODEL; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION MONITORING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84874361359     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.01.066     Document Type: Article

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