A process for evaluating hypotheses
about why ecological effects have
occurred from human activities
- Assessment endpoints
- Conceptual models that represents
key relationships between stressor(s)
and assessment endpoint(s)
- Analysis Plan
Integrate available Information on
- stressor sources
- stressor characteristics
- exposure opportunities
- characteristics of the ecosystems
potential at risk
- ecological effects
This information forms the basis for
developing conceptual models and
selecting assessment endpoints.