Developing standards for environmental toxicants: the need to consider abiotic environmental factors and microbe-mediated ecologic processes.
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Developing standards for environmental toxicants: the need to consider abiotic environmental factors and microbe-mediated ecologic processes.
This article suggests and discusses two novel aspects for the formulation of standards for environmental toxicants. First, uniform national standards for each pollutant will be underprotective for some ecosystems and overprotective for others, inasmuch as the toxicity of a pollutant to the indigenous biota is dependent on the physicochemical properties of the recipient environment. As the numbe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0091-6765,1552-9924
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8349247