Applying species‐sensitivity distributions in ecological risk assessment: Assumptions of distribution type and sufficient numbers of species

By M. C. Newman, D. Ownby, Laurent C. Mézin, D. Powell, T. Christensen, Scott B. Lerberg, Britt Anderson. 2000

387 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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In Ecology

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2. D. Nugegoda
3. C. Palmer
4. K. Leung
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Citations in the corpus

• Rationale and Procedures for Using the Tissue-Residue Approach for Toxicity Assessment and Determination of Tissue, Water, and Sediment Quality Guidelines for Aquatic Organisms (2006, methodology): “Often, the lower 95th percentile confidence interval for the HC05 point estimate is selected as the concentration for protection (Newman et al. 2000; Wheeler et al. 2002).”
• Species Sensitivity Distributions Revisited: A Critical Appraisal (2002, background): “Several studies have addressed this issue of distributional shape choice and have used various statistical fitting methods to assess which distribution(s) is(are) the most appropriate for fitting single species NOEC data (Versteeg et al. 1999; Newman et al. 2000).”
• Species sensitivity distributions: data and model choice. (2002, background): “It has also been suggested that datasets may contain several sub-distributions, possibly related to taxonomic differences in sensitivity ( Newman et al., 2000 ) that may not be adequately described by a single straight line.”
• Ecological risk to aquatic systems from salinity increases (2003, background): “Both the likelihood (salinity) and effects data are approximately log-normally distributed, although this is not always the case (Newman et al. 2000).”
• What is Meant by “95% of Species”? An Argument for the Inclusion of Rapid Tolerance Testing (2005, methodology): “If this occurred then the findings of Newman et al. (2000), Wheeler et al. (2002), and others would have underestimated the number of species required for estimating the SSDs.”