Selected Publications on AQUATOX

Note: These documents have been included here as an additional resource for users or potential users of AQUATOX, as examples of model application or review. While the majority of these documents are from peer-reviewed journals, they have not undergone additional review by US EPA before inclusion here. No endorsement or recommendation by US EPA should be inferred.

Ahmadi-Mamaqani,Y, N.Khorasani, K. Talebi, S.H.Hashemi, G. Rafiee, and F. Bahadori-Khosroshahi. 2011. Diazinon fate and toxicity in the Tajan River (Iran) ecosystem. Environmental Engineering Science, 28 (12), 1-10.

Bartell, S.M, R.A. Pastorok, H.R. Akcakaya, H. Regan, S. Ferson, and C. Mackay. 2003. Realism and relevance of ecological models used in chemical risk assessment. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment 9 (4): 907-938.

Carleton, J. N., M. C. Wellman, P. A. Cocca, A. S. Donigian, R. A. Park, J. T. Love, and J. S. Clough. 2005. Nutrient Criteria Development with a Linked Modeling System: Methodology Development and Demonstration. TMDL 2005. Water Environment Federation, Alexandria, Virginia, pp 1-25.

Carleton, J. N., R. A. Park, and J. S. Clough 2009. Ecosystem Modeling Applied to Nutrient Criteria Development in Rivers. Environmental Management 44 (3) 485-492.

DeLaender, F., K.A.C. DeSchamphelaere, P.A.Vanrolleghem, and C.R. Janssen. 2007. Validation of an ecosystem modeling approach as a tool for ecological effect assessments. Chemosphere 71 (2008) 529-545.

Eturk, A., R. A. Ambrose, and B. Rashleigh. 2007. Assessment of the fate and effects of toxic agents on water resources. Pages 331–400 in: I.E. Gonenc, V. Koutitonsky, B. Rashleigh, R. A. Ambrose, and J. P. Wolfin (eds), Assessment of the fates and effects of toxic agents on water reources. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Gonenc, I. E., V. Koutitonsky, B. Rashleigh, R. A. Ambrose, and J. P. Wolfin. 2007. Assessment of the fates and effects of toxic agents on water reources. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Funder, S.G. 2009. Risk assessment of the Skensved A Field Site: Review and application of surface water models. B.S. Thesis. Technical University of Denmark.

Hawkins, Troy. 2006. Critical Evaluation of the Aquatox Model (PDF) (30 pp, 659K)  [Internet] 2005 [cited 2006].

Imhoff, J. C., J.S. Clough, R.A. Park, and A. Stoddard. 2004. Evaluation Of Chemical Bioaccumulation Models of Aquatic Ecosystems: Final Report. Athens GA: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Kianirad, Ehsan , David Bedoya, Indrani Ghosh, Kevin McGarvey, and Vladimir Novotny. 2006. Review of Watershed Ecological Models (PDF) (88 pp, 1.5MB). 

Koelmans, A.A., , A. Van der Heidje, , L.M. Knijff, , and R.H. Aalderink. 2001. Integrated Modelling of Eutrophication and Organic Contaminant Fate & Effects in Aquatic Ecosystems. A Review. Water Research 35 (15):3517-3536.

Lei,B., S.Huang, M.Qiao, T.Li, and Z.Wang. 2008. Prediction of the environmental fate and aquatic ecological impact of nitrobenzene in the Songhuajiang River using the modified AQUATOX model. Journal of Environmental Sciences 20 (2008):1-9.

Lei,B. S. Huang, X.W. Jin and Z. Wang. 2010. Deriving the aquatic predicted no-effect concentrations (PNECs) of three chlorophenols for the Taihu Lake, China, Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A, 45:14, 1823-1831.

Mauriello, D.A., and R.A. Park. 2002. An adaptive framework for ecological assessment and management. In: Integrated Assessment and Decision Support (A. E. Rizzoli and A.J. Jakeman, eds.) International Environmental Modeling and Software Society, Manno, Switzerland. pp 509-514.

McKnight U.S., S.G.Funder, J.J.Rasmussen, M. Finkel, P.J. Binning, P.L.Bjerg, 2010. An integrated model for assessing the risk of TCE groundwater contamination to human receptors and surface water ecosystems. Ecological Engineering 36, 1126-1137.

Park, R.A., J.J. Anderson, G.L. Swartzman, R. Morison, and J.M. Emlen. 1988. Assessment of Risks of Toxic Pollutants to Aquatic Organisms and Ecosystems Using a Sequential Modeling Approach. In Fate and Effects of Pollutants on Aquatic Organisms and Ecosystems, 153-165. EPA/600/9-88/001. Athens, Ga.: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Park, R. A., J. S. Clough, M. C. Wellman, and A. S. Donigian. 2005. Nutrient Criteria Development with a Linked Modeling System: Calibration of AQUATOX Across a Nutrient Gradient. TMDL 2005. Water Environment Federation, Alexandria, Virginia, pp 885-902.

Park, R.A., B. Firlie, R. Camacho, K. Sappington, M. Coombs, and D. Mauriello. 1995. AQUATOX, A General Fate and Effects Model for Aquatic Ecosystems. Toxic Substances in Water Environments Proceedings, Water Environment Federation, Alexandria, Virginia, pp 3-7 - 3-17.

Park, R.A., J.S. Clough, M.C. Wellman 2008. AQUATOX: Modeling environmental fate and ecological effects in aquatic ecosystems. Ecological Modelling 213: 1-15.

Pastorok, R. A.; Bartell, S. M.; Ferson, S.; Ginzburg, L. R., Eds. Ecological Modeling in Risk Assessment; Lewis: Boca Raton, Florida, 2002.

Rashleigh, B. 2003. Application of AQUATOX, a process-based model for ecological assessment, to Contentnea Creek in North Carolina. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 18 (4): 515- 522.

Rashleigh, B. 2007. Assessment of lake ecosystem response to toxic events with the AQUATOX model. Pages 293–299 in: I.E. Gonenc, V. Koutitonsky, B. Rashleigh, R. A. Ambrose, and J. P. Wolfin (eds), Assessment of the fates and effects of toxic agents on water reources. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Rashleigh, B., M.C. Barber, and D.M. Walters. 2009. Foodweb modeling for PCBs in the Twelvemile Creek Arm of Lake Hartwell, South Carolina, USA. Ecological Modelling 220: 254-264.

Sourisseau, S., A. Basseres, F. Perie, and T. Caquet, 2008. Calibration, validation and sensitivity analysis of an ecosystem model applied to artificial streams. Water Research 42:1167-1181.

Taner, M.U., J. N. Carleton, M. Wellman. 2011. Integrated model projections of climate change impacts on a North American lake. Ecological Modelling 222: 3380– 3393.

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