Assessing sediment toxicity: Past, present, and future

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1438-1440

  Burton, G Allen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; NICKEL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PYRETHROID;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEAVY METAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION EFFECT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TOXICITY;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CLIMATE; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HUMAN; LAKE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RESERVOIR; RIVER; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; STREAM (RIVER); UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84878737004     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.2250     Document Type: Article

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