ABSTRACT Water Quality Criteria (WQC) for metals are usually based on single species
laboratory toxicity data. The influence of water characteristics of the surface waters on …

Although significant progress has been made in understanding how environmental factors
modify the speciation, bioavailability and toxicity of metals such as copper in aquatic …

Abstract The Water Framework Directive (WFD) in Europe calls for an improved aquatic
ecological status. Biotic ligand models (BLM) have been suggested as a possible tool …

Background The EU member countries are currently implementing the Water Framework
Directive to promote better water quality and overview of their waters. The directive …

In this sudy, the combined effects of pH, water hardness, and dissolved organic carbon (DO)
concentration and type on the chronic (72‐h) effect of copper on growth inhibition of the …

Water quality standards for copper are usually stated in total element concentrations. It is
known, however, that a major part of the copper can be bound in complexes that are …

Chronic copper (Cu) bioavailability models have been successfully implemented in
European risk assessment frameworks and compliance evaluations. However, they were …

We investigated whether an earlier-developed bioavailability model for predicting copper
toxicity to growth rate of the freshwater alga Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata could be …

Comparative acute toxicity values for Ceriodaphnia dubia, Scapholeberis sp. and
Pimephales promelas exposed to copper were used to calculate water effect ratios (eg, site …

Bioavailability models, for example, multiple linear regressions (MLRs) of water quality
parameters, are increasingly being used to develop bioavailability‐based water quality …