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New ideas on criteria for identification and assessing environmental hazards of chemical pollutants. ecology, ecosystem, organisms, biosphere, bioassay, man-made impacts, biota, chemical factors, surfactants, xenobiotics, ecological hazards, chemicals, bioaccumulation, new criteria, pollutants, plankton, benthos, water filtration, bivalves, mussels, Mytilus edulis, surfactant, Triton X-100


New ideas on criteria for identification and assessing environmental hazards of chemical pollutants

This paper formulated a fundamentally new solution to the problem of selecting criteria for identification and assessing environmental hazards of chemical pollutants, toxicants. The paper explains why the currently accepted set of criteria is non-efficient and leads to mistakes. 

See more detail here: http://alsuyus.blogspot.ru/2013/01/new-ideas-on-criteria-for.html


Reference:

Criteria of ecological hazards due to anthropogenic effects on the biota: searching for a system. - 
Dokl Biol Sci (Doklady Biological Sciences). 2000; 371:204-206. (in English);
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ecology, ecosystem, organisms, biosphere, bioassay, man-made impacts, biota, chemical factors, surfactants, xenobiotics, ecological hazards, chemicals, bioaccumulation, new criteria, pollutants, plankton, benthos, water filtration, bivalves, mussels,  Mytilus edulis, surfactant, Triton X-100