Ecotoxicology Resource Links

These links are provided to facilitate informational searches and are not necessarily endorsements of methodologies or products.

Ecological Risk Assessment Guidelines and Methods

• U.S. EPA document Generic Ecological Endpoints for Risk Assessment: http://cfpub2.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/recordisplay.cfm?deid=55131

• US EPA Environmental Test Methods and Guidelines

• US EPA NCEA
  National Center for Environmental Assessment

Ecology

• DFG lists of California threatened/endangered species

• Federal lists of endangered/threatened species: http://www.fws.gov/endangered/species/index.html

Ecotoxicology

• A January 2004 ruling regarding pesticides use restrictions near salmon spawning streams:
  • General Information: http://www.epa.gov/oppfead1/endanger/wtc/index.html
  • California-specific information: http://www.cdpr.ca.gov/docs/es/salmonid.htm
• Information on pesticides provided by California Dept. of Pesticide Regulation: http://www.cdpr.ca.gov/index.htm
  • Pesticide use reports:
    http://www.cdpr.ca.gov/docs/pur/purmain.htm
• Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), a learned society that promotes the advancement and application of scientific research related to contaminants and other stressors in the environment.
  http://www.setac.org/
• Northern California Chapter of SETAC: https://norcalsetac.wordpress.com/

• US EPA guidelines for sediment quality:
  http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/cs/guidelines.htm

• US EPA Water Quality Criteria:
  http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/criteria/
• USGS Ecosystems
• Wild World
  Hosted by National Geographic—Information on all 867 of the planet's Ecoregions

Databases

• CalEPA Department of Pesticide Regulation
  Endangered Species Project

• CERES
  California Environmental Resources Evaluation System

• Contaminant Hazard Reviews
  USGS Geological Survey Eisler Reports

• NOAA Screening Quick Reference Tables
  (SQuiRTs)

• Pesticide Action Network database on pesticides and related compounds:www.pesticideinfo.org
• University of California, Davis
  Information Center for the Environment

• USEPA ECOTOX Database On-line
  (ACQUIRE, PHYTOTOX and TERRETOX)

• USGS
  Biological and Ecotoxicological Characteristics of Terrestrial Vertebrate Species Residing In Estuaries

• USGS Patuxent Species Decline Database