Limitations of Laboratory Bioassays: The Need for Ecosystem-Level Testing
- 1 March 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 35 (3), 165-171
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1309866
Abstract
Laboratory bioassays provide a first step in testing for chemical effects on ecosystems but are inadequate for predicting effects on natural populatiThis publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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