Ecological risk assessment of perfluooroctane sulfonate to aquatic fauna from a bayou adjacent to former fire training areas at a US Air Force installation

Medicine & Life Sciences

• perfluorooctane sulfonic acid 100%
• Risk Assessment 53%
• Air 51%
• Water 21%
• Uncertainty 19%
• Biota 16%
• Aquatic Organisms 15%
• Food Chain 14%
• Aircraft 13%
• Fresh Water 13%
• Ecosystem 11%

Chemistry

• Perfluorooctane 95%
• Sulfonate 59%
• Force 43%
• Surface Water 33%
• Chronic Toxicity 33%
• Foam 9%
• Food 7%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• sulfonate 72%
• risk assessment 49%
• surface water 21%
• toxicity 15%
• organism 14%
• exposure 12%
• aquatic organism 11%
• food chain 11%
• foam 10%
• biota 9%
• tissue 7%
• habitat 6%
• effect 4%