Abstract
For a long time, risk assessment for chemicals has been based almost exclusively on single-species laboratory tests. Methods have been developed to extrapolate results from single-species tests to so-called ‘safe levels’ in the environment. Despite the usefulness of some of these methods, it is felt that single-species tests alone do not provide sufficient basis for ecological risk assessment, and the use of micro-and mesocosms, and mathematical models is advocated to acquire additional data
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Van Wensem, J. (1997). The use of models in ecological risk assessment. In: van Straalen, N.M., Løkke, H. (eds) Ecological Risk Assessment of Contaminants in Soil. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6361-7_10
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