Interactive Flow Chart Review

View the following flow chart, and try to explain it to yourself. Can you walk through each of the elements involved in the stages of analysis that are shown?

Analysis is a complicated procedure. Most likely, you need a more in-depth review to remind yourself of all the elements involved in moving through the analysis phase of ecological risk assessment.

When you click areas of the figure below, you will reveal the detailed flow charts showing the steps of analysis that you became familiar with in preceding lessons:

• Data.
• Characterizing exposure.
• Characterizing ecological effects.

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How did you do on the three topics? It may help you fit all the pieces together if you go back to review Lesson 1: Analysis Overview.

When you have completed all the steps of Analysis, are ready, and have the materials, you will proceed to the risk characterization phase.

Relevant guidelines section(s): 4.0