Acute Species Sensitivity Datasets

Usage

envirotox_acute

Format

`envirotox_acute`

A data frame with 14,949 rows and 6 columns:

Chemical: Chemical name (chr)
Conc: Concentration of chemical in micrograms per litre (dbl).
Species: Species name (chr).
Group: Taxonomic group of species (chr).
Yanagihara24: Whether the dataset fits the criteria of Yanagihara et al. (2024) (flag).
Iwasaki25: Whether the dataset was included in Iwasaki et al. (2025) (flag).

Source

https://envirotoxdatabase.org/

References

Yanagihara, M., Hiki, K., and Iwasaki, Y. 2024. Which distribution to choose for deriving a species sensitivity distribution? Implications from analysis of acute and chronic ecotoxicity data. Ecotoxicology and environmental safety 278: 116379. doi:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2024.116379.

Iwasaki, Y., and Yanagihara, M. 2025. Comparison of model-averaging and single-distribution approaches to estimating species sensitivity distributions and hazardous concentrations for 5% of species. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 44(3): 834–840. doi:10.1093/etojnl/vgae060.

Examples


head(envirotox_acute)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 6
#>   Chemical              Conc Species                Group Yanagihara24 Iwasaki25
#>   <chr>                <dbl> <chr>                  <chr> <lgl>        <lgl>    
#> 1 (+/-)-cis-Permethrin  0.36 Culex quinquefasciatus Inve… FALSE        FALSE    
#> 2 (+/-)-cis-Permethrin  5    Cyprinodon macularius  Fish  FALSE        FALSE    
#> 3 (+/-)-cis-Permethrin 13    Gambusia affinis       Fish  FALSE        FALSE    
#> 4 (+/-)-cis-Permethrin 13.2  Oncorhynchus mykiss    Fish  FALSE        FALSE    
#> 5 (+/-)-cis-Permethrin  5.6  Oreochromis mossambic… Fish  FALSE        FALSE    
#> 6 (+/-)-cis-Permethrin 38    Oryzias latipes        Fish  FALSE        FALSE