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Article: Comparison of tropical and temperate freshwater animal species' acute sensitivities to chemicals: implications for deriving safe extrapolation factors.

TitleComparison of tropical and temperate freshwater animal species' acute sensitivities to chemicals: implications for deriving safe extrapolation factors.
Authors
Issue Date2007
PublisherSociety of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. The Journal's web site is located at http://setac.allenpress.com/entconline/?request=index-html
Citation
Integrated Environmental Assessment And Management, 2007, v. 3 n. 1, p. 49-67 How to Cite?
AbstractToxicity data for tropical species are often lacking for ecological risk assessment. Consequently, tropical and subtropical countries use water quality criteria (WQC) derived from temperate species (e.g., United States, Canada, or Europe) to assess ecological risks in their aquatic systems, leaving an unknown margin of uncertainty. To address this issue, we use species sensitivity distributions of freshwater animal species to determine whether temperate datasets are adequately protective of tropical species assemblages for 18 chemical substances. The results indicate that the relative sensitivities of tropical and temperate species are noticeably different for some of these chemicals. For most metals, temperate species tend to be more sensitive than their tropical counterparts. However, for un-ionized ammonia, phenol, and some pesticides (e.g., chlorpyrifos), tropical species are probably more sensitive. On the basis of the results from objective comparisons of the ratio between temperate and tropical hazardous concentration values for 10% of species, or the 90% protection level, we recommend that an extrapolation factor of 10 should be applied when such surrogate temperate WQCs are used for tropical or subtropical regions and a priori knowledge on the sensitivity of tropical species is very limited or not available.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/73352
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dc.contributor.authorKwok, KWen_HK
dc.contributor.authorLeung, KMen_HK
dc.contributor.authorLui, GSen_HK
dc.contributor.authorChu, SVen_HK
dc.contributor.authorLam, PKen_HK
dc.contributor.authorMorritt, Den_HK
dc.contributor.authorMaltby, Len_HK
dc.contributor.authorBrock, TCen_HK
dc.contributor.authorVan den Brink, PJen_HK
dc.contributor.authorWarne, MSen_HK
dc.contributor.authorCrane, Men_HK
dc.date.accessioned2010-09-06T06:50:28Z-
dc.date.available2010-09-06T06:50:28Z-
dc.date.issued2007en_HK
dc.identifier.citationIntegrated Environmental Assessment And Management, 2007, v. 3 n. 1, p. 49-67en_HK
dc.identifier.issn1551-3777en_HK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/73352-
dc.description.abstractToxicity data for tropical species are often lacking for ecological risk assessment. Consequently, tropical and subtropical countries use water quality criteria (WQC) derived from temperate species (e.g., United States, Canada, or Europe) to assess ecological risks in their aquatic systems, leaving an unknown margin of uncertainty. To address this issue, we use species sensitivity distributions of freshwater animal species to determine whether temperate datasets are adequately protective of tropical species assemblages for 18 chemical substances. The results indicate that the relative sensitivities of tropical and temperate species are noticeably different for some of these chemicals. For most metals, temperate species tend to be more sensitive than their tropical counterparts. However, for un-ionized ammonia, phenol, and some pesticides (e.g., chlorpyrifos), tropical species are probably more sensitive. On the basis of the results from objective comparisons of the ratio between temperate and tropical hazardous concentration values for 10% of species, or the 90% protection level, we recommend that an extrapolation factor of 10 should be applied when such surrogate temperate WQCs are used for tropical or subtropical regions and a priori knowledge on the sensitivity of tropical species is very limited or not available.en_HK
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dc.titleComparison of tropical and temperate freshwater animal species' acute sensitivities to chemicals: implications for deriving safe extrapolation factors.en_HK
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