CCME Species Sensitivity Data — ccme

Species Sensitivity Data from the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment. The taxonomic groups are Amphibian, Fish, Invertebrate and Plant. Plants includes freshwater algae.

ccme_data

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 144 rows and 5 columns.

Details

Additional information on each of the chemicals is available from the CCME website.

boron: (2021). “CCME.” May 06, https://ccme.ca/en/chemical/16.
cadmium: (2021). “CCME.” May 06, https://ccme.ca/en/chemical/20.
chloride: (2021). “CCME.” May 06, https://ccme.ca/en/chemical/28.
endosulfan: (2021). “CCME.” May 06, https://ccme.ca/en/chemical/93.
glyphosate: (2021). “CCME.” May 06, https://ccme.ca/en/chemical/102.
uranium: (2021). “CCME.” May 06, https://ccme.ca/en/chemical/225.
silver: (2021). “CCME.” May 06, https://ccme.ca/en/chemical/198.

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).

Examples


head(ccme_data)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 5
#>   Chemical Species                Conc Group Units
#>   <chr>    <chr>                 <dbl> <fct> <chr>
#> 1 Boron    Oncorhynchus mykiss     2.1 Fish  mg/L 
#> 2 Boron    Ictalurus punctatus     2.4 Fish  mg/L 
#> 3 Boron    Micropterus salmoides   4.1 Fish  mg/L 
#> 4 Boron    Brachydanio rerio      10   Fish  mg/L 
#> 5 Boron    Carassius auratus      15.6 Fish  mg/L 
#> 6 Boron    Pimephales promelas    18.3 Fish  mg/L