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INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT
卷 3, 期 1, 页码 49-67出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/ieam.5630030105
关键词
Temperature; Environmental quality standard; Chemical hazard; Ecotoxicology; Climate change
资金
- University of Hong Kong [1020-4904/5692]
- Area of Excellence Scheme under the University Grants Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administration Region, China [AoE/P-04/2004]
Toxicity 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.
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