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Guidance Document on Simulated Freshwater Lentic Field Tests (Outdoor Microcosms and Mesocosms) / OECD.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, author, issuing body.
- Series:
- OECD environmental health and safety publications. Series on testing and assessment.
- OECD Series on Testing and Assessment
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Water--Pollution--Toxicology.
- Water.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (37 pages).
- Other Title:
- Guidance Document on Simulated Freshwater Lentic Field Tests
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : OECD Publishing, 2006.
- Summary:
- Outdoor microcosms and mesocosms are useful in risk assessment when lower-tier and higher-tier laboratory studies (single-species and multi-species) indicate potential risks. They can be an important tool in bridging the gap between these studies and attempts to understand, predict and confirm what may occur in the natural environment subject to these risks. Every microcosm or mesocosm study should be designed to test a specific hypothesis using information gained in previous steps of the risk assessment. Although this guidance document is mainly based on experiences with testing of plant protection products (PPP), in principle, it applies to other groups of toxic substances as well (e.g., wastewater, industrial chemicals). However it should be noted that suitable exposure design for substances other than PPPs can differ (e.g., steady contamination instead of single application).
- Contents:
- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION
- GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEMS
- INITIAL CONSIDERATIONS
- PRINCIPLES OF THE TEST
- VALIDITY OF THE TEST
- DESCRIPTION OF THE METHOD
- Experimental systems
- Re-use of ponds
- Sediment
- Water
- Organisms to include
- Maturation time
- TEST DESIGN
- Recovery
- PROCEDURES
- Application of the test substance
- Sampling
- Biological measurement
- Analytical measurements
- DATA AND REPORTING
- Data handling and statistical analysis
- Appropriate levels of taxonomic resolution
- Structural versus functional endpoints
- Reporting requirements
- LITERATURE.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 92-64-39837-6
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