| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Cumulative Ecological Risk Assessment | Environment | Consideration of the total ecological risk from multiple stressors to a given eco-zone. (references) | |
| Ecological risk assessment | Administration | The application of a formal framework, analytical process, or model to estimate the effects of human actions on a natural resource and to interpret the significance of those effects in light of the uncertainties identified in each component of the assessment process. Such analysis includes initial hazard identification, exposure and dose-response assessments, and risk characteristics. (references) | |
| Ecological risk assessment | Avian | A process that evaluates the likelihood that adverse ecological effects may occur or are occurring as a result of exposure to one or more stressors. Ecological risk assessment may evaluate one or many stressors and ecological components (Risk Assessment Forum 1992:2). (references) | |
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