Integrated ecological risk values for habitat function (+ standard deviation) (Min,0; Max, 1) for each sampling point, combining information from the chemical (ChemLoE), ecotoxicological (EcotoxLoE), and ecological (EcoLoE) lines of evidence.
posted on 2015-11-03, 03:00authored byJúlia Carina Niemeyer, Matilde Moreira-Santos, Rui Ribeiro, Michiel Rutgers, Marco Antonio Nogueira, Eduardo Mendes da Silva, José Paulo Sousa
Points with grey bars are located inside of the smelter area. Different bands indicate limits of accepted risk values for different soil uses (A agriculture, R residential, I industrial; asterisks indicate necessity of sealed soils) according to Jensen and Mesman (2006). Triangles on top of each bar represent the contribution of each LoE for the integrated risk value being an indicator of the weight of evidence (a triangle with equal sized arms (equilateral) indicates a similar risk value (high weight of evidence) for each LoE). The length of each “arm” of the triangle is proportional to the risk value for each LoE (on the top right the example with the length of each axis of the triangle representing maximum risk (1) from each LoE).