The scope of this Interest Group (IG) is mechanistic effect modeling for the risk assessment of chemicals in Europe. The IG will focus on models to analyze and predict effects of chemicals on organisms, populations, communities and ecosystems in aquatic, soil and terrestrial environments. The IG will consider models to describe and predict effects on the level of the single organism, e.g., toxicokinetic and toxicodynamic models (TK-TD), dynamic energy budget models (DEB), biotic ligand models (BLM). Empirical statistical models (e.g., dose-response functions, species sensitivity distributions, multivariate models of community structure) and QSARs are not included in the focus of the group.
The IG includes several Working Groups (WGs) that focus on specific issues:
- Aquatic Primary Producer TKTD Models
- Statistics
- Model Acceptability, Version Control and Scenario Development (MAD)
- Lemna (legacy working group)