Select literature dealing with sediment: (1) toxicity testing, (2) bioaccumulation, (3) sediment quality triad, and (4) sediment quality guidelines. Prepared for a presentation on: "Sediment toxicity testing methods, and data interpretation", National Environmental Contaminants meeting of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Big Cedar Lodge, Missouri, Monday April 12, 1999; Chris Ingersoll, Columbia Environmental Research Center, USGS, Columbia, MO, chris_ingersoll@usgs.gov; Don MacDonald, MacDonald Environmental Sciences, Ltd., Ladysmith, British Columbia, sff-mesl@island.net.
See also the reference lists from the "Technical basis for metals sediment quality criteria" paper (Ankley et al., 1996) and the "Technical basis for sediment quality criteria for nonionic organics paper" (Di Toro et al. 1991; or the Technical Basis for Derivation of Sediment Quality Criteria Document (U.S.EPA, in prep). Also the December, 1996 issue of "Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry" has a series of papers on the use of acid volatile sulfide in the prediction of biological effects of metals in sediments, some of which are listed below.
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