Environmental risks of inorganic metals and metalloids: a continuing, evolving scientific odyssey

PM Chapman - Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Ecological risk assessment (ERA) of metals, metalloids, and inorganic metal substances
(collectively referred to as metals) no longer focuses solely on persistence and …

Copper toxicity in the marine copepod Tigropus japonicus: Low variability and high reproducibility of repeated acute and life-cycle tests

KWH Kwok, KMY Leung, VWW Bao, JS Lee - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2008 - Elsevier
The intertidal copeopod Tigriopus japonicus, which is abundant and widely distributed along
the coasts of Western Pacific, has been suggested to be a good marine ecotoxicity testing …

Spatial and temporal variation of watertype-specific no-effect concentrations and risks of Cu, Ni, and Zn

AJ Verschoor, JPM Vink, GR de Snoo… - … science & technology, 2011 - ACS Publications
Geographical and temporal variations in metal speciation were calculated and water-type
specific sensitivities were derived for a range of aquatic species, using surveillance water …

Relating metal bioavailability to risk assessment for aquatic species: Daliao River watershed, China

S Han, Y Zhang, S Masunaga, S Zhou, W Naito - Environmental pollution, 2014 - Elsevier
The spatial distribution of metal bioavailability (Ni, Cu, Zn, and Pb) was first evaluated within
the waters of Daliao River watershed, using the diffusive gradient in thin films (DGT) and …

Evaluation of current copper bioavailability tools for soft freshwaters in Sweden

S Hoppe, JP Gustafsson, H Borg, M Breitholtz - … and environmental safety, 2015 - Elsevier
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 …

Use of the biotic ligand model to predict pulse-exposure toxicity of copper to fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas)

JS Meyer, CJ Boese, JM Morris - Aquatic toxicology, 2007 - Elsevier
Concentrations of cationic metals (eg, Ag, Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn) and other water quality
parameters (eg, pH, alkalinity, hardness, dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentration) …

[HTML][HTML] Predictions of Cu toxicity in three aquatic species using bioavailability tools in four Swedish soft freshwaters

S Hoppe, M Sundbom, H Borg, M Breitholtz - Environmental Sciences …, 2015 - Springer
Background The EU member countries are currently implementing the Water Framework
Directive to promote better water quality and overview of their waters. The directive …

Impact of bioavailability incorporation on ecological risk assessment of nickel, copper, and zinc in surface waters

S Han, W Naito, S Masunaga - Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2016 - Springer
In this study, biotic ligand models (BLMs) were used to conduct bioavailability-incorporated
risk assessment of metals (Ni, Cu, and Zn) in Japanese rivers. Site-specific species …

[PDF][PDF] The power of biotic ligand models: site-specific impact of metals on aquatic communities

AJ Verschoor - 2013 - scholarlypublications …
Metals are detected in every environmental compartment and are inherently persistent. They
undergo various speciation changes within different compartments (Tessier et al., 1995) and …