Web-based Interspecies Correlation Estimation
Citation:
RAIMONDO, S., D. VIVIAN, AND M. G. BARRON. Web-based Interspecies Correlation Estimation. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/C-14/001, 2007.
Impact/Purpose:
Provide tool to predict toxicity to aquatic and wildlife taxa
Description:
Web-ICE estimates acute toxicity (LC50/LD50) of a chemical to a species, genus, or family from the known toxicity of the chemical to a surrogate species. Web-ICE has modules to predict acute toxicity to aquatic (fish and invertebrates) and wildlife (birds and mammals) taxa for use in ecological risk assessments, and also contains modules that generate Species Sensitivity Distributions (SSDs) from Web-ICE generated data.
Record Details:
Record Type:MODEL(
DATA/SOFTWARE/
MODEL)
Product Published Date:06/11/2007
Record Last Revised:09/24/2014
OMB Category:Other
Record ID:
215585
Keywords:
Acute toxicity, aquatic organisms, wildlife, species sensitivity distributions,
Model Keywords:
Clean Water Act (CWA), Other Ecological Indicators, Deterministic, providing single values for key model outputs, Ecosystem, Water (e.g., surface water, ground water), Area Source (e.g., spray, fertilizer, lagoon, holding area), Point Source (e.g., tank, spill, stack, discharge pipe), Chemical (e.g., organic, inorganic, toxics), Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA),
Model Detail:
Model Evaluation
:
- Code verification followed Quality Assurance Project Plan
- model results verified through cross-validation
- Sensitivity analysis – n/a; empirical relationship
- Uncertainty analyses conducted to determine influence of species taxonomic relatedness, chemical mode of action, acute test conditions, and model parameters.
- Multiple peer review articles published on model application and technical basis.
Model URL
:http://www.epa.gov/ceampubl/fchain/webice/index.html
Model Guidance Documents
:http://www.epa.gov/ceampubl/fchain/webice/iceManual.html
Model Download Information
:Model data available at:
http://www.epa.gov/ceampubl/fchain/webice/iceDownloads.html
modelcontactinfo
:Agency Contact:
Sandy Raimondo
EPA/ORD/NHEERL/GED
Raimondo.sandy@epa.gov
850-934-2424
Model Inputs
:Acute toxicity (e.g. LC50/ LD50)
Model Outputs
:Acute toxicity (e.g. LC50/ LD50) / Species sensitivity distributions
Document IDs:
EPA Number
:EPA/600/C-14/001