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Species Sensitivity Data from the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment for cadmium.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 36 rows and 6 columns.

Details

Additional information is available from CCME (2021). “Cadmium: Water Quality Guidelines for the Protection of Aquatic Life.” May 06, https://ccme.ca/en/chemical/20.

The columns are as follows:

Chemical

The chemical (chr).

Species

The species binomial name (chr).

Conc

The chemical concentration (dbl).

Group

The taxonomic group (fct).

Units

The units of Conc (chr).

Medium

The medium (freshwater, marine, etc.) (chr).

Examples


print(ccme_cadmium, n=Inf)
#> # A tibble: 36 × 6
#>    Chemical Species                             Conc Group        Units Medium  
#>    <chr>    <chr>                              <dbl> <fct>        <chr> <chr>   
#>  1 Cadmium  Oncorhynchus mykiss                 0.23 Fish         ug/L  Freshwa…
#>  2 Cadmium  Salvelinus confluentus              0.83 Fish         ug/L  Freshwa…
#>  3 Cadmium  Cottus bairdi                       0.96 Fish         ug/L  Freshwa…
#>  4 Cadmium  Salmo salar                         0.99 Fish         ug/L  Freshwa…
#>  5 Cadmium  Acipenser transmontanus             1.14 Fish         ug/L  Freshwa…
#>  6 Cadmium  Prosopium williamsoni               1.25 Fish         ug/L  Freshwa…
#>  7 Cadmium  Salmo trutta                        1.36 Fish         ug/L  Freshwa…
#>  8 Cadmium  Salvelinus fontinalis               2.23 Fish         ug/L  Freshwa…
#>  9 Cadmium  Oncorhynchus tshawytscha            2.29 Fish         ug/L  Freshwa…
#> 10 Cadmium  Pimephales promelas                 2.36 Fish         ug/L  Freshwa…
#> 11 Cadmium  Catostomus commersoni               7.75 Fish         ug/L  Freshwa…
#> 12 Cadmium  Oncorhynchus kisutch                7.81 Fish         ug/L  Freshwa…
#> 13 Cadmium  Salvelinus namaycush                8.03 Fish         ug/L  Freshwa…
#> 14 Cadmium  Esox lucius                         8.03 Fish         ug/L  Freshwa…
#> 15 Cadmium  Daphnia magna                       0.05 Invertebrate ug/L  Freshwa…
#> 16 Cadmium  Ceriodaphnia reticulata             0.12 Invertebrate ug/L  Freshwa…
#> 17 Cadmium  Hyalella azteca                     0.12 Invertebrate ug/L  Freshwa…
#> 18 Cadmium  Hydra viridissima                   0.87 Invertebrate ug/L  Freshwa…
#> 19 Cadmium  Chironomus tentans                  0.96 Invertebrate ug/L  Freshwa…
#> 20 Cadmium  Echinogammarus meridionalis         1.3  Invertebrate ug/L  Freshwa…
#> 21 Cadmium  Atyaephyra desmarestii              1.32 Invertebrate ug/L  Freshwa…
#> 22 Cadmium  Gammarus pulex                      1.86 Invertebrate ug/L  Freshwa…
#> 23 Cadmium  Daphnia pulex                       2.07 Invertebrate ug/L  Freshwa…
#> 24 Cadmium  Ceriodaphnia dubia                  4.9  Invertebrate ug/L  Freshwa…
#> 25 Cadmium  Lampsilis siliquoidea               5.12 Invertebrate ug/L  Freshwa…
#> 26 Cadmium  Aeolosoma headleyi                 14.7  Invertebrate ug/L  Freshwa…
#> 27 Cadmium  Lymnaea stagnalis                  18.9  Invertebrate ug/L  Freshwa…
#> 28 Cadmium  Chironomus riparius                27.1  Invertebrate ug/L  Freshwa…
#> 29 Cadmium  Lymnaea palustris                  58.2  Invertebrate ug/L  Freshwa…
#> 30 Cadmium  Rhithrogena hageni               2659    Invertebrate ug/L  Freshwa…
#> 31 Cadmium  Erythemis simplicicollis        48400    Invertebrate ug/L  Freshwa…
#> 32 Cadmium  Pachydiplax longipennis         76500    Invertebrate ug/L  Freshwa…
#> 33 Cadmium  Ambystoma gracile                 106    Amphibian    ug/L  Freshwa…
#> 34 Cadmium  Ankistrodesmus falcatus             4.9  Plant        ug/L  Freshwa…
#> 35 Cadmium  Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata    19.8  Plant        ug/L  Freshwa…
#> 36 Cadmium  Lemna minor                        79    Plant        ug/L  Freshwa…