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Consideration of Nonlinearities And Discontinuities
Pages 313-313

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... . Many ecological risk assessments necessarily deal with complex systems that offer an abundance of possible end points for study, and selection of one or a few of them for the intense effort required in a full-scale risk assessment is likely to be time-consuming and expensive -- perhaps as long and expensive as the risk assessment itself.
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