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Progress in Chemistry 2009, Vol. 21 Issue (0203): 350-358 Previous Articles   Next Articles

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Theories and Methods of Ecological Risk Assessment

Lei Bingli; Huang Shengbiao; Wang Zijian**   

  1. (State Key Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry , Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences , Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100085 , China)
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  • Contact: Wang Zijian E-mail:wangzj@rcees.ac.cn
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Ecological risk assessment is developed from single-species toxicity test to multi-species toxicity test, then to ecological risk models. Accordingly, chronic toxicity data is obtained from different assessment methods containing a simple extrapolation model based on single-species toxicity test, microcosm or mesocosm based on multi-species test, and ecological risk models based on population or ecosystem. This paper discusses the development and characteristics of ecological risk assessment methods and existing problems at different stages. It points out that the main development treads of the ecological risk assessment is from the individual to the community. At the same time, risk characteristic method, data selection and statistical method selection in ecological risk assessment are introduced. The perspectives of ecological risk assessment are given.

Contents
1 The development process of ecological risk assessment
2 The methodology progress of ecological risk assessment
2.1 Ecological risk assessment based on the single-species toxicity test
2.2 Ecological risk assessment based on the multi-species toxicity test (microcosm or mesocosm)
2.3 Ecological risk assessment based on the population or ecosystem (ecological models)
3 Risk characterization methods
3.1 Risk quotients (RQ)
3.2 Probabilistic ecological risk assessment (PERA)
3.3 Multi-level ecological risk assessment methods
4 The data and statistical method selection in probabilistic models
4.1 The data selection
4.2 The statistical method selection
5 The perspectives of ecological risk assessment

Key words: ecological risk assessment, ecological risk assessment methods, risk characterization

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