general introduction to species sensitivity distributions

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... General Introduction and History of SSDs Chapter General Introduction to Species Sensitivity Distributions Leo Posthuma, Theo P Traas, and Glenn W Suter II Chapter North American History of Species ... I General Introduction and History of SSDs This section describes the context and history of the development of species sensitivity distributions (SSDs) for use in ecotoxicology The general introduction ... Factors for Tiny Toxicity Data Sets from Species Sensitivity Distributions with Known Standard Deviation Tom Aldenberg and Robert Luttik © 2002 by CRC Press LLC Chapter Species Sensitivity Distributions...

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... Based on Species Sensitivity Distributions Nico M van Straalen CONTENTS 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Derivation of Ecological Risk 4.3 Probability Generating Mechanisms 4.4 Species Sensitivity Distributions ... reason one species happens to be more sensitive than another is not due to species- specific factors, but to errors associated with testing, medium preparation, or exposure A given test species can ... a toxicant Toxicant sensitivity data sets may be compiled in a specific way to cover a wide range of taxa, or directed toward taxa sharing a common feature that makes them more sensitive to a toxicant...

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... than one toxicity study is done with the same species and different toxicological criteria, the lowest NOEC is used If several toxicity studies are done with the same species and the same toxicological ... corresponded to concentrations expected to exceed the NOEC of to 52% of genera This analysis, like the previous ones, suggested that laboratory generated singlespecies chronic studies can be used to establish ... use of sensitivity factors assumed that species sensitivities to a pollutant were lognormally distributed and that the logarithmic variance of a specific kind of data (e.g., acute toxicity to freshwater...

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... Assessment Technique Laboratory toxicity data Laboratory toxicity data Risk or hazard quotients Species sensitivity distributions Laboratory toxicity data and demographics Laboratory toxicity data and ... issue of laboratory -to- field extrapolation is another problem that is generic to laboratory toxicology and not peculiar to SSDs If the use of laboratory data cannot be avoided, due to the lack of ... from species to groups of species relates in part to the toxic mode of action of the compound For example, the sensitive response of microarthropod species to organophosphate compounds relates to...

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... one-forms is a vector space distinct from, but complementary to, the linear vector space of vectors The vector space of one-forms is called the dual vector (or cotangent) space to distinguish it ... practical way to perform calculations To simplify calculations it is helpful to introduce a set of linearly independent basis vector and one-form elds spanning our vector and dual vector spaces ... choice of basis vectors ~ Our basis vectors are e simply a linearly independent set of four vector elds allowing us to express any vector as a linear combination of basis vectors The choice of...

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... vectors are just tangent vectors: the contravariant vector vi corresponds to the tangent vector given by v = vi , xi so we shall henceforth refer to tangent vectors and contravariant vectors ... no need to specify a path every time we want a tangent vector! Note Under the one -to- one correspondence in the proposition, the standard basis vectors in En correspond to the tangent vectors /x1, ... contravariant vector is a vector that is tangent to the manifold How we think of a covariant vector? Answer The key to the answer is this: Note From now on, all scalar and vector fields are assumed...

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... that we know how to add two vectors 27 diffeo− morphism vector space so that the result remains in the same space, and also to multiply a vector by some number to obtain another vector, also a member ... usual cases, and extended to general manifolds (when f is a function between general differentiable manifolds, df takes vectors into vectors) The notation leads also to the reinterpretation of ... keep a certain coherence with the topology, we have a topological vector space Once in possession of the means to define coordinates, we can proceed to transfer to manifolds all the (supposedly...

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... contravariant vectors are just tangent vectors: the contravariant vector vi corresponds to the tangent vector given by v = vi , xi so we shall henceforth refer to tangent vectors as contravariant vectors ... need to specify a path every time we want a tangent vector! Notes 3.7 (1) Under the one -to- one correspondence in the proposition, the standard basis vectors in En correspond to the tangent vectors ... fields on M into a vector space Note that we cannot expect to obtain a vector field by adding a covariant field to a contravariant field Exercise Set Suppose that X j is a contravariant vector field...

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... ordinary combinatorial structures but counting structures associated to vector spaces over the field of order q Second, a q -species is a functor from a category of vector spaces to the category ... notation It is possible to define the substitution H ◦ F for a combinatorial species H (a functor from the category B to itself) and a q -species F Letting H = En be the species of n-sets, we have ... A-weighted q -species is a functor Fw : Vq → B Example 4.3 The q -species of ordered or unordered splittings can be made into a weighted q -species by defining the weight of a splitting to be tk ∈...

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