Do predictions from Species Sensitivity Distributions match with field data?

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 189, Issue , 2014, Pages 126-133

  Smetanova S ^a   Blaha L ^a   Liess, M ^b   Schafer R B ^c   Beketov, M A ^b  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Freshwater; Pollution; Risk assessment; Rivers; Statistical modelling

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; PESTICIDES; POLLUTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVERS;

BIOINDICATOR; BIOLOGICAL COMMUNITY; FIELD STUDIES; FRESHWATER; SPECIES SENSITIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL MODELING; STATISTICAL MODELLING; STREAM INVERTEBRATES;

RIVER POLLUTION;

PESTICIDE;

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; MODEL VALIDATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER WATER; TOXICITY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRESS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ECOTOXICITY; FINLAND; FRANCE; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GERMANY; INVERTEBRATE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; MULTIPLE SUBSTANCE POTENTIALLY AFFECTED FRACTION APPROACH; PREDICTION; SPECIES SENSITIVITY DISTRIBUTION MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STREAM (RIVER); VALIDATION PROCESS; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR;

FINLAND; FRANCE; GERMANY;

FRESHWATER; POLLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVERS; STATISTICAL MODELLING;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FINLAND; FRANCE; GERMANY; INVERTEBRATES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PESTICIDES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVERS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84896936889     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.03.002     Document Type: Article

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