The development of a toxicity database using freshwater macroinvertebrates, and its application to the protection of South African water resources

There is a growing international trend towards the protection of freshwater resources from pollution by imposing instream guidelines and specified waste-discharge conditions. Current methods for devising freshwater quality guidelines are based on species sensitivity distributions (SSDs) that are use...

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Main Authors: Palmer, C G, Muller, W J, Gordon, A K, Scherman, P-A, Davies-Coleman, H D, Pakhomova, L, De Kock, E
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1009528