The proper application of biotic ligand models to predict metal toxicity depends on accurate
prediction of metal binding to sites on natural organic matter (NOM) which compete with the …

The Biotic Ligand Model (BLM) attempts to predict metal toxicity to aquatic organisms on the
basis of metal speciation and effects at the cell surface. Current versions of the BLM for silver …

Fifteen freshwater samples containing significant concentrations of dissolved organic carbon—
[DOC]—were titrated with copper under standardised conditions (pH 6 and 7), and …

A multimetal, multiple binding site version of the biotic ligand model (mBLM) has been
developed for predicting and explaining the bioavailability and toxicity of mixtures of metals …

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) has established nationally
applicable water quality criteria (WQC) for metals that are designed to be protective of …

During recent years, the biotic ligand model (BLM) has been proposed as a tool to evaluate
quantitatively the manner in which water chemistry affects the speciation and biological …

The Biotic Ligand Model (BLM) has proven efficient in predicting the toxicity of a variety of
metals to freshwater organisms. Consequently, the US EPA has proposed its use for …

The advances in studies of trace metal speciation and bioavailability since Mark Florence's
1982 review of the topic, published in Talanta, have been comprehensively reviewed. While …

Ecological risk assessment can be enhanced with predictive models for metal toxicity.
Modelings of published data were done under the simplifying assumption that intermetal …

The rapidly developing biotic ligand model (BLM) allows us to predict the toxicity of heavy
metals in water of various chemistries; however, the current BLM predicts the toxicity of a …