CADLit contains information on stressor-response information for multiple stressor exposures reported in peer reviewed scientific literature.

Identify candidate or potential causes of impairments by providing information that may support or negate causal pathways in conceptual models.

Support or negate the contribution of a specific stressor to an impairment by providing qualitative and quantitative data from other studies of similar stressor scenarios.

At this time the CADLit contains information for metals and sediment identified through literature searches current as of 2003. We are considering expanding the scope of the CADLit to include more stressors and types of information, so please contact us with suggestions for additions.

Other characteristics of this data base include:

Many of the reviewed papers are from studies in the United States and Canada, but a significant number are from other parts of the world.

The surveyed literature will generally be peer-reviewed articles in the English language from journals abstracted in bibliographical databases, such as Biological Abstracts, Biosis, Current Contents or Science Direct.

If more than one set of data were analyzed independently in a study, separate listings, called datasets, occur in the data base for each set of data

You should consult the original scientific paper to ensure an understanding of the context of the secondary data retrieved from the CADLit database and obtain details that could not be coded into the database.