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Development and evaluation of sediment quality guidelines for Florida coastal waters

Donald D. Macdonald, R. S. Carr, Fred D. Calder, Edward R. Long, C. Ingersoll

1996.8.1ECOTOXICOLOGY

DOI: 10.1007/bf00118995

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The weight-of-evidence approach to the development of sediment quality guidelines (SQGs) was modified to support the derivation of biological effects-based SQGs for Florida coastal waters, which were demonstrated to provide practical, reliable and predictive tools for assessing sediment quality.

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MACDONALD, Donald D., et al. Development and evaluation of sediment quality guidelines for florida coastal waters. ECOTOXICOLOGY, 1996, 5: 253–278.