Seasonally and regionally determined indication potential of bioassays in contaminated river sediments

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Authors	HILSCHEROVÁ Klára DUŠEK Ladislav ŠTĚPÁNKOVÁ Tereza JÁLOVÁ Veronika ČUPR Pavel GIESY John NEHYBA Slavomír JARKOVSKÝ Jiří KLÁNOVÁ Jana HOLOUBEK Ivan
Year of publication	2010
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Field	Water pollution and control
Keywords	Sediment; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Organic carbon; In vitro bioassays
Description	The study demonstrates the strength of the specific bioassays in indicating the changes in contamination and emphasizes the crucial role of a well-designed sampling plan, in which both spatial and temporal dynamics should be taken into account, for the correct interpretations of information in risk assessments.
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