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Title:

Species Sensitivity Distribution Data

Version:

2.0.0

Description:

Reference data sets of species sensitivities to compare the results of fitting species sensitivity distributions using software such as 'ssdtools' and 'Burrlioz'. It consists of curated data sets for individual chemicals from Australian, New Zealand and Canadian organizations, several data sets from anonymous sources, and larger uncurated compilations drawn from the ANZTOX, WQBench and EnviroTox databases. It also includes a data set of the results of fitting various distributions using different software.

URL:

https://open-aims.github.io/ssddata/, https://github.com/open-AIMS/ssddata

License:

Apache License (== 2.0)

Depends:

R (≥ 3.5)

Imports:

chk, dplyr, Rdpack, utils

Suggests:

quarto, tibble, knitr, readr, kableExtra, here, tidyverse, rprojroot, covr, pkgdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), EnvStats, mousetrap, openxlsx, stringr

VignetteBuilder:

quarto

RdMacros:

Rdpack

Config/testthat/edition:

Encoding:

UTF-8

LazyData:

true

Config/roxygen2/version:

8.0.0

NeedsCompilation:

Packaged:

2026-08-03 08:32:11 UTC; rfisher

Author:

Rebecca Fisher [aut, cre], Joe Thorley

[aut], Ayla Pearson

[aut], Carl Schwarz [ctb], David Fox [ctb]

Maintainer:

Rebecca Fisher <R.Fisher@aims.gov.au>

Repository:

CRAN

Date/Publication:

2026-08-04 10:30:22 UTC

ssddata: Species Sensitivity Distribution Data

Description

Author(s)

Maintainer: Rebecca Fisher R.Fisher@aims.gov.au

Authors:

Rebecca Fisher R.Fisher@aims.gov.au
Joe Thorley joe@poissonconsulting.ca (ORCID)
Ayla Pearson ayla@poissonconsulting.ca (ORCID)

Other contributors:

Carl Schwarz [contributor]
David Fox [contributor]

Species Sensitivity Data for aluminium_marine

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Australian Institute of Marine Science for aluminium in marine water.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 20 rows and 10 columns.

Details

These data were sourced from: van Dam JW, Trenfield MA, Streten C, Harford AJ, Parry D, van Dam RA (2018). “Water quality guideline values for aluminium, gallium and molybdenum in marine environments.” Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 25(26), 26592–26602. ISSN 16147499. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-018-2702-y.

The columns are as follows:

Common: The species common name (chr).
Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Domain: Tropical, temperate or other filter (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Phylum: The Phylum name (chr).
Source: The endpoint primary data source (chr).
Species: The species names name (chr).
Test_endpoint: Endpoint statistic, EC10, NEC etc (chr).
Toxicity_measure: Type of toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


data(aims_aluminium_marine)
print(aims_aluminium_marine, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data provided by AIMS

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Australian Institute of Marine Science.

Usage

aims_data

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 40 rows and 12 columns.

Details

Additional information may be available from the primary source for each chemical:

aluminium_marine: van Dam JW, Trenfield MA, Streten C, Harford AJ, Parry D, van Dam RA (2018). “Water quality guideline values for aluminium, gallium and molybdenum in marine environments.” Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 25(26), 26592–26602. ISSN 16147499. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-018-2702-y.
gallium_marine: van Dam JW, Trenfield MA, Streten C, Harford AJ, Parry D, van Dam RA (2018). “Water quality guideline values for aluminium, gallium and molybdenum in marine environments.” Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 25(26), 26592–26602. ISSN 16147499. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-018-2702-y.
molybdenum_marine: van Dam JW, Trenfield MA, Streten C, Harford AJ, Parry D, van Dam RA (2018). “Water quality guideline values for aluminium, gallium and molybdenum in marine environments.” Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 25(26), 26592–26602. ISSN 16147499. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-018-2702-y.

The columns are as follows, noting that all information may not be available for all chemicals:

Chemical: The chemical name (chr).
Common: The species common name (chr).
Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Domain: Tropical, temperate or other filter (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Medium: The test medium: "Marine" (chr).
Phylum: The Phylum name (chr).
Source: The endpoint primary data source (chr).
Species: The species names name (chr).
Test_endpoint: Endpoint statistic, EC10, NEC etc (chr).
Toxicity_measure: Type of toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


head(aims_data)

Species Sensitivity Data for gallium_marine

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Australian Institute of Marine Science for gallium in marine water.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 6 rows and 10 columns.

Details

The columns are as follows:

Common: The species common name (chr).
Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Domain: Tropical, temperate or other filter (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Phylum: The Phylum name (chr).
Source: The endpoint primary data source (chr).
Species: The species names name (chr).
Test_endpoint: Endpoint statistic, EC10, NEC etc (chr).
Toxicity_measure: Type of toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


data(aims_gallium_marine)
print(aims_gallium_marine, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for molybdenum_marine

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Australian Institute of Marine Science for molybdenum in marine water.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 14 rows and 10 columns.

Details

The columns are as follows:

Common: The species common name (chr).
Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Domain: Tropical, temperate or other filter (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Phylum: The Phylum name (chr).
Source: The endpoint primary data source (chr).
Species: The species names name (chr).
Test_endpoint: Endpoint statistic, EC10, NEC etc (chr).
Toxicity_measure: Type of toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


data(aims_molybdenum_marine)
print(aims_molybdenum_marine, n=Inf)

Anonymous Species Sensitivity Data anon_a

Description

Species Sensitivity Data from anonymous sources.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 18 rows and 3 columns.

Details

This example data were sourced from:

DAWE (2021). “Unpublished data, anonymous information supplied by Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia.” April 20.

The columns are as follows:

Chemical: The chemical name (chr).
Conc: The chemical concentration (dbl).
Medium: The medium (freshwater, marine, or unknown) (chr).

Examples


print(anon_a, n=Inf)

Anonymous Species Sensitivity Data anon_b

Description

Species Sensitivity Data from anonymous sources.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 10 rows and 3 columns.

Details

This example data were sourced from:

DAWE (2021). “Unpublished data, anonymous information supplied by Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia.” April 20.

The columns are as follows:

Chemical: The chemical name (chr).
Conc: The chemical concentration (dbl).
Medium: The medium (freshwater, marine, or unknown) (chr).

Examples


print(anon_b, n=Inf)

Anonymous Species Sensitivity Data anon_c

Description

Species Sensitivity Data from anonymous sources.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 16 rows and 3 columns.

Details

This example data were sourced from:

DAWE (2021). “Unpublished data, anonymous information supplied by Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia.” April 20.

The columns are as follows:

Chemical: The chemical name (chr).
Conc: The chemical concentration (dbl).
Medium: The medium (freshwater, marine, or unknown) (chr).

Examples


print(anon_c, n=Inf)

Anonymous Species Sensitivity Data anon_d

Description

Species Sensitivity Data from anonymous sources.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 12 rows and 3 columns.

Details

This example data were sourced from:

DAWE (2021). “Unpublished data, anonymous information supplied by Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia.” April 20.

The columns are as follows:

Chemical: The chemical name (chr).
Conc: The chemical concentration (dbl).
Medium: The medium (freshwater, marine, or unknown) (chr).

Examples


print(anon_d, n=Inf)

Anonymous Species Sensitivity Data

Description

Species Sensitivity Data from Anonymous sources

Usage

anon_data

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 73 rows and 3 columns.

Details

Additional information on each of the chemicals may be available from their primary source, at:

a: DAWE (2021). “Unpublished data, anonymous information supplied by Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia.” April 20.
c: DAWE (2021). “Unpublished data, anonymous information supplied by Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia.” April 20.
d: DAWE (2021). “Unpublished data, anonymous information supplied by Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia.” April 20.
b: DAWE (2021). “Unpublished data, anonymous information supplied by Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia.” April 20.
e: Fox DR, van Dam RA, Fisher R, Batley GE, Tillmanns AR, Thorley J, Schwarz CJ, Spry DJ, McTavish K (2021). “Recent developments in Species Sensitivity Distribution Modeling.” Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 40(2), 293–308. doi:10.1002/etc.4925. https://setac.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/etc.4925.

Chemical: The chemical (chr), in this case an anonymous unique identifier.
Conc: The chemical concentration (dbl).

Examples


head(anon_data)

Anonymous Species Sensitivity Data anon_e

Description

Species Sensitivity Data from anonymous sources.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 17 rows and 3 columns.

Details

This example data were sourced from:

Fox DR, van Dam RA, Fisher R, Batley GE, Tillmanns AR, Thorley J, Schwarz CJ, Spry DJ, McTavish K (2021). “Recent developments in Species Sensitivity Distribution Modeling.” Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 40(2), 293–308. doi:10.1002/etc.4925. https://setac.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/etc.4925.

The columns are as follows:

Chemical: The chemical name (chr).
Conc: The chemical concentration (dbl).
Medium: The medium (freshwater, marine, or unknown) (chr).

Examples


print(anon_e, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for alpha_cypermethrin_fresh

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for alpha_cypermethrin in freshwater.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 14 rows and 8 columns.

Details

These data are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (summary of terms provided here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Additional information is available from the Water Quality website at https://www.waterquality.gov.au/

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2023). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Alpha-cypermethrin in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/alpha-cypermethrin-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Where toxicity measure is not a chronic NEC, EC10 or NOEC value, concentration has been converted using the appropriate default ratio, as follows: 10 from acute EC50/LC50 to chronic EC10; 5 from chronic EC50 to EC10; 2.5 from LOEC to EC10. Please see the primary reference material for more information.

Examples


print(anzg_alpha_cypermethrin_fresh, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for aluminium_marine

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for aluminium in marine water.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 18 rows and 7 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2025). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Aluminium in marine water.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/aluminium-marine-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_aluminium_marine, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for ametryn_fresh

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for ametryn in freshwater.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 8 rows and 7 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2025). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Ametryn in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/ametryn-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_ametryn_fresh, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for ammonia_fresh

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for ammonia in freshwater.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 40 rows and 7 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2026). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Ammonia in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/ammonia-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_ammonia_fresh, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for bisphenol_a_fresh

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for bisphenol_a in freshwater.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 19 rows and 7 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2023). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Bisphenol A in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/bisphenol-a-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_bisphenol_a_fresh, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for bisphenol_a_marine

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for bisphenol_a in marine water.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 8 rows and 7 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2023). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Bisphenol A in marine water.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/bisphenol-a-marine-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_bisphenol_a_marine, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for boron_fresh

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for boron in freshwater.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 22 rows and 7 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2021). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Boron in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/boron_fresh_dgv_technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_boron_fresh, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for chlorine_marine

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for chlorine in marine water.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 29 rows and 8 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2026). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Chlorine in marine water.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/chlorine-marine-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_chlorine_marine, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for chromium_III_fresh

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for chromium_III in freshwater.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 13 rows and 7 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2026). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Chromium (III) in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/chromium-III-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_chromium_III_fresh, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for copper_marine

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for copper in marine water.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 45 rows and 10 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2025). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Copper in marine water.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/anz-guidelines/guideline-values/default/water-quality-toxicants/toxicants/copper-marine-2025.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Phylum: The Phylum name (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Test_endpoint: The test endpoint measure (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_copper_marine, n=Inf)

ANZG Species Sensitivity Data

Description

ANZG Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia.

Usage

anzg_data

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 592 rows and 13 columns.

Details

These data are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (summary of terms provided here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Additional information is available from the Water Quality website at https://www.waterquality.gov.au/.

Additional information may be available from the primary source for each chemical:

metolachlor_fresh: ANZG (2020). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Metolachlor in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/anz-guidelines/guideline-values/default/water-quality-toxicants/toxicants/metolachlor-fresh-2020.
alpha_cypermethrin_fresh: ANZG (2023). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Alpha-cypermethrin in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/alpha-cypermethrin-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.
aluminium_marine: ANZG (2025). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Aluminium in marine water.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/aluminium-marine-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.
ametryn_fresh: ANZG (2025). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Ametryn in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/ametryn-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.
ammonia_fresh: ANZG (2026). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Ammonia in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/ammonia-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.
bisphenol_a_fresh: ANZG (2023). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Bisphenol A in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/bisphenol-a-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.
bisphenol_a_marine: ANZG (2023). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Bisphenol A in marine water.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/bisphenol-a-marine-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.
boron_fresh: ANZG (2021). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Boron in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/boron_fresh_dgv_technical-brief.pdf.
chromium_III_fresh: ANZG (2026). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Chromium (III) in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/chromium-III-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.
chlorine_marine: ANZG (2026). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Chlorine in marine water.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/chlorine-marine-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.
dioxins_fresh: ANZG (2021). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Dioxins in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/dioxins_fresh_dgv_technical-brief.pdf.
diuron_fresh: ANZG (2025). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Diuron in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/diuron-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.
diuron_marine: ANZG (2024). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Diuron in marine water.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/diuron-marine-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.
fipronil_fresh: ANZG (2023). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Fipronil in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/fipronil-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.
fluoride_fresh: ANZG (2024). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Fluoride in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/fluoride-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.
glyphosate_fresh: ANZG (2021). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Glyphosate in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/glyphosate_fresh_dgv_technical-brief.pdf.
iron_fresh: ANZG (2025). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Iron in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/iron-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.
iron_marine: ANZG (2025). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Iron in marine water.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/iron-marine-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.
mancozeb_fresh: ANZG (2023). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Mancozeb in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/mancozeb-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.
manganese_marine: ANZG (2026). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Manganese in marine water.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/manganese-marine-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.
mcpa_fresh: ANZG (2024). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: MCPA in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/mcpa-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.
nickel_marine: ANZG (2026). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Nickel in marine water.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/nickel-marine-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.
paraquat_fresh: ANZG (2024). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Paraquat in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/paraquat-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.
picloram_fresh: ANZG (2024). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Picloram in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/picloram-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.
simazine_fresh: ANZG (2024). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Simazine in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/simazine-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.
simazine_marine: ANZG (2026). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Simazine in marine water.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/simazine-marine-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.
sulfometuron_methyl_fresh: ANZG (2024). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Sulfometuron-methyl in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/sulfometuron-methyl-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.
zinc_marine: ANZG (2021). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Zinc in marine water.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/zinc_marine_dgv_technical-brief.pdf.
copper_marine: ANZG (2025). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Copper in marine water.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/anz-guidelines/guideline-values/default/water-quality-toxicants/toxicants/copper-marine-2025.
metsulfuron_methyl_fresh: ANZG (2021). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Metsulfuron-methyl in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/metsulfuron-methyl_fresh_dgv-technical-brief_0.pdf.
perfluorooctane_sulfonate_pfos_fresh: ANZG (2026). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/pfos-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.
nitrate_soft_fresh: ANZG (2025). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Nitrate in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/nitrate-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.
nitrate_moderate_fresh: ANZG (2025). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Nitrate in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/nitrate-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.
nitrate_hard_fresh: ANZG (2025). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Nitrate in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/nitrate-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows, noting that some information may not be available for all chemicals:

Chemical: The chemical name (chr).
Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Medium: The test medium: "Freshwater", "Marine", or one of the hardness variants "Soft freshwater", "Moderate freshwater", "Hard freshwater" (chr).
Notes: Other notes (chr).
Phylum: The Phylum name (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Test_endpoint: The test endpoint measure (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


head(anzg_data)

Species Sensitivity Data for dioxins_fresh

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for dioxins in freshwater.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 8 rows and 10 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2021). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Dioxins in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/dioxins_fresh_dgv_technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Notes: Other notes (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Test_endpoint: The test endpoint measure (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_dioxins_fresh, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for diuron_fresh

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for diuron in freshwater.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 16 rows and 9 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2025). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Diuron in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/diuron-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Test_endpoint: The test endpoint measure (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_diuron_fresh, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for diuron_marine

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for diuron in marine water.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 12 rows and 9 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2024). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Diuron in marine water.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/diuron-marine-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Test_endpoint: The test endpoint measure (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_diuron_marine, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for fipronil_fresh

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for fipronil in freshwater.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 13 rows and 11 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2023). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Fipronil in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/fipronil-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Notes: Other notes (chr).
Phylum: The Phylum name (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Test_endpoint: The test endpoint measure (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_fipronil_fresh, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for fluoride_fresh

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for fluoride in freshwater.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 22 rows and 10 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2024). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Fluoride in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/fluoride-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Notes: Other notes (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Test_endpoint: The test endpoint measure (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_fluoride_fresh, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for glyphosate_fresh

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for glyphosate in freshwater.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 15 rows and 10 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2021). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Glyphosate in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/glyphosate_fresh_dgv_technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Phylum: The Phylum name (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Test_endpoint: The test endpoint measure (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_glyphosate_fresh, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for iron_fresh

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for iron in freshwater.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 20 rows and 9 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2025). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Iron in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/iron-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Test_endpoint: The test endpoint measure (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_iron_fresh, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for iron_marine

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for iron in marine water.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 16 rows and 9 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2025). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Iron in marine water.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/iron-marine-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Test_endpoint: The test endpoint measure (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_iron_marine, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for mancozeb_fresh

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for mancozeb in freshwater.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 8 rows and 10 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2023). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Mancozeb in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/mancozeb-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Phylum: The Phylum name (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Test_endpoint: The test endpoint measure (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_mancozeb_fresh, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for manganese_marine

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for manganese in marine water.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 18 rows and 10 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2026). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Manganese in marine water.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/manganese-marine-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Phylum: The Phylum name (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Test_endpoint: The test endpoint measure (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_manganese_marine, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for mcpa_fresh

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for mcpa in freshwater.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 16 rows and 10 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2024). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: MCPA in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/mcpa-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Phylum: The Phylum name (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Test_endpoint: The test endpoint measure (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_mcpa_fresh, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for metolachlor_fresh

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for metolachlor in freshwater.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 21 rows and 11 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2020). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Metolachlor in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/anz-guidelines/guideline-values/default/water-quality-toxicants/toxicants/metolachlor-fresh-2020.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Notes: Other notes (chr).
Phylum: The Phylum name (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Test_endpoint: The test endpoint measure (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_metolachlor_fresh, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for metsulfuron_methyl_fresh

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for metsulfuron_methyl in freshwater.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 8 rows and 11 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2021). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Metsulfuron-methyl in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/metsulfuron-methyl_fresh_dgv-technical-brief_0.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Notes: Other notes (chr).
Phylum: The Phylum name (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Test_endpoint: The test endpoint measure (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_metsulfuron_methyl_fresh, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for nickel_marine

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for nickel in marine water.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 31 rows and 10 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2026). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Nickel in marine water.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/nickel-marine-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Phylum: The Phylum name (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Test_endpoint: The test endpoint measure (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_nickel_marine, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for nitrate_hard_fresh

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for nitrate in hard freshwater.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 12 rows and 10 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2025). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Nitrate in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/nitrate-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Phylum: The Phylum name (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Test_endpoint: The test endpoint measure (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_nitrate_hard_fresh, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for nitrate_moderate_fresh

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for nitrate in moderately hard freshwater.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 11 rows and 10 columns.

Details

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Phylum: The Phylum name (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Test_endpoint: The test endpoint measure (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_nitrate_moderate_fresh, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for nitrate_soft_fresh

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for nitrate in soft freshwater.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 14 rows and 10 columns.

Details

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Phylum: The Phylum name (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Test_endpoint: The test endpoint measure (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_nitrate_soft_fresh, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for paraquat_fresh

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for paraquat in freshwater.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 10 rows and 10 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2024). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Paraquat in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/paraquat-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Phylum: The Phylum name (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Test_endpoint: The test endpoint measure (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_paraquat_fresh, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for perfluorooctane_sulfonate_pfos_fresh

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for perfluorooctane_sulfonate_pfos in freshwater.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 37 rows and 10 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2026). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/pfos-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Phylum: The Phylum name (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Test_endpoint: The test endpoint measure (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_perfluorooctane_sulfonate_pfos_fresh, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for picloram_fresh

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for picloram in freshwater.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 12 rows and 10 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2024). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Picloram in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/picloram-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Phylum: The Phylum name (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Test_endpoint: The test endpoint measure (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_picloram_fresh, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for simazine_fresh

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for simazine in freshwater.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 20 rows and 10 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2024). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Simazine in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/simazine-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Phylum: The Phylum name (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Test_endpoint: The test endpoint measure (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_simazine_fresh, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for simazine_marine

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for simazine in marine water.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 14 rows and 10 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2026). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Simazine in marine water.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/simazine-marine-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Phylum: The Phylum name (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Test_endpoint: The test endpoint measure (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_simazine_marine, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for sulfometuron_methyl_fresh

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for sulfometuron_methyl in freshwater.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 6 rows and 10 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2024). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Sulfometuron-methyl in freshwater.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/sulfometuron-methyl-fresh-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Phylum: The Phylum name (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Test_endpoint: The test endpoint measure (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_sulfometuron_methyl_fresh, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for zinc_marine

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for zinc in marine water.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 16 rows and 10 columns.

Details

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2021). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Zinc in marine water.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/zinc_marine_dgv_technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: The duration of the test in days (chr).
Genus: The Genus name (chr).
Group: The taxonomic group (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Phylum: The Phylum name (chr).
Species: The species binomial name (chr).
Test_endpoint: The test endpoint measure (chr).
Toxicity_measure: The toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Examples


print(anzg_zinc_marine, n=Inf)

ANZTOX Species Sensitivity Data

Description

A curated dataset of species-level ecotoxicity data. These data were sourced from the ANZTOX database, originally served by the Qld government and then by SETAC, and now maintained locally.

The data were cleaned and algorithmically (machine) processed for Species Sensitivity Distribution (SSD) analysis using a workflow developed to mimic as closely as possible the principles and decisions documented in (ANZECC and ARMCANZ 2000) and (Warne et al. 2015) and subsequent updates (Warne et al. 2018; Warne et al. 2025).

Data encompass two source tables from the available sql file extracted from the ANZTOX database:

toxicityvalue2000 (17,755 records), originally sourced from (Sunderam et al. 2000), a Microsoft Access database distributed on CD-ROM with the ANZECC & ARMCANZ Water Quality Guidelines.
toxicityvalue2016 (2,794 records), which is the data underpinning the subsequent 2015 and 2018 updates to the water quality guidelines (Warne et al. 2015; Warne et al. 2018).

Usage

anztox_data

Format

A tibble with one row per chemical x mediatype combination and columns:

casnumber_grouped: Grouped CAS number (character).
chemicalname_grouped: Grouped chemical name (character).
mediatype: "Freshwater" or "Marine" (character).
data: List-column of nested tibbles containing species-level toxicity data.

Details

The data cleaning and SSD eligibility workflow is fully documented in the accompanying vignette: vignette("ANZTOX-data-processing", package = "ssddata")

In brief:

Harmonisation: The 2000 and 2016 datasets differed in structure and endpoint vocabulary and were de-normalised, cleaned, and combined into a single table. Chemical variants and salts are mapped to parent compounds via a curated CAS parent lookup. Endpoint labels from 2016 are mapped to 2000 effect codes.
Test type priority: Within each species x chemical x endpoint group, chronic data are preferred over subchronic, and subchronic over acute.
Acute-to-chronic conversion: Where only acute data are available for a species, acute LC/EC/IC50 values are divided by a default ACR of 10 (Warne et al. 2025, Section 3.4.2.2) to obtain chronic negligible-effect equivalents before SSD fitting.
Aggregation: Concentration values for the same species x endpoint are geometric-mean averaged. The most sensitive endpoint per species is retained.
Eligibility threshold: Only chemical x media combinations with >= 5 species from >= 4 distinct major taxonomic groups are retained. These are then nested into a list-column ready for SSD fitting or related functions.

The columns are as follows:

casnumber_grouped: The grouped chemical CAS number, mapped to parent compound where applicable (chr).
chemicalname_grouped: The grouped chemical name, mapped to parent compound name where applicable (chr).
mediatype: Water type: "Freshwater" or "Marine" (chr).
data: A list-column containing a tibble of species-level rows for that chemical x media combination. Each row represents a single species and contains columns: scientificname, commonname_species, majorgroup, minorgroup, endpoint, endpoint_concentration (geometric mean concentration in ug/L or mg/L, depending on the chemical), testtype (Chronic or Acute), source_datasets (comma-separated source: "2000", "2016", or both), and n_acute_converted (count of acute records that contributed to the geometric mean after ACR conversion).

References

ANZECC, ARMCANZ (2000). Australian and New Zealand Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Water Quality. Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council and Agriculture and Resource Management Council of Australia and New Zealand, Canberra, Australia.

Sunderam RIM, Warne MS, Chapman J, Rose R, Hawkins J, Pablo F (2000). “The ANZECC & ARMCANZ Toxicant Water Quality Guideline Database.” Microsoft Access database distributed on CD-ROM with ANZECC & ARMCANZ Water Quality Guidelines.

Warne MS, Batley GE, van Dam RA, Chapman JC, Fox DR, Hickey CW, Stauber JL (2015). “Revised Method for Deriving Australian and New Zealand Water Quality Guideline Values for Toxicants.” Department of Science, Information Technology and Innovation, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Prepared for the Standing Council on Environment and Water (SCEW).

Warne MS, Batley GE, van Dam RA, Chapman JC, Fox DR, Hickey CW, Stauber JL (2018). “Revised Method for Deriving Australian and New Zealand Water Quality Guideline Values for Toxicants.” Australian and New Zealand Governments, Canberra, ACT, Australia. Updated version associated with the Australian and New Zealand Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Water Quality (ANZG 2018).

Warne MS, Batley GE, van Dam RA, Chapman JC, Fox DR, Hickey CW, Stauber JL, Fisher R (2025). “Method for Deriving Australian and New Zealand Water Quality Guideline Values for Protecting Aquatic Ecosystems from Toxicants – Update of 2018 Version.” Australian and New Zealand Governments, Canberra, ACT, Australia. Prepared for the Australian and New Zealand Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Water Quality.

Examples


print(anztox_data)

# Nest structure: each row contains species data ready for ssdtools
head(anztox_data$data[[1]])

CCME Species Sensitivity Data for ccme_boron

Description

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

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 28 rows and 6 columns.

Details

Additional information is available from CCME (2021). “Boron: Water Quality Guidelines for the Protection of Aquatic Life.” May 06, https://ccme.ca/en/chemical/16.

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_boron, n=Inf)

CCME Species Sensitivity Data for ccme_cadmium

Description

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)

CCME Species Sensitivity Data for ccme_chloride

Description

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

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 28 rows and 6 columns.

Details

Additional information is available from CCME (2021). “Chloride: Water Quality Guidelines for the Protection of Aquatic Life.” May 06, https://ccme.ca/en/chemical/28.

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_chloride, n=Inf)

CCME Species Sensitivity Data

Description

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.

Usage

ccme_data

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 144 rows and 6 columns.

Details

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

boron: CCME (2021). “Boron: Water Quality Guidelines for the Protection of Aquatic Life.” May 06, https://ccme.ca/en/chemical/16.
cadmium: CCME (2021). “Cadmium: Water Quality Guidelines for the Protection of Aquatic Life.” May 06, https://ccme.ca/en/chemical/20.
chloride: CCME (2021). “Chloride: Water Quality Guidelines for the Protection of Aquatic Life.” May 06, https://ccme.ca/en/chemical/28.
endosulfan: CCME (2021). “Endosulfan: Water Quality Guidelines for the Protection of Aquatic Life.” May 06, https://ccme.ca/en/chemical/93.
glyphosate: CCME (2021). “Glyphosate: Water Quality Guidelines for the Protection of Aquatic Life.” May 06, https://ccme.ca/en/chemical/102.
uranium: CCME (2021). “Uranium: Water Quality Guidelines for the Protection of Aquatic Life.” May 06, https://ccme.ca/en/chemical/225.
silver: CCME (2021). “Silver: Water Quality Guidelines for the Protection of Aquatic Life.” 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).
Medium: The medium (freshwater, marine, etc.) (chr).

Examples


head(ccme_data)

CCME Species Sensitivity Data for ccme_endosulfan

Description

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

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 12 rows and 6 columns.

Details

Additional information is available from CCME (2021). “Endosulfan: Water Quality Guidelines for the Protection of Aquatic Life.” May 06, https://ccme.ca/en/chemical/93.

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_endosulfan, n=Inf)

CCME Species Sensitivity Data for ccme_glyphosate

Description

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

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 18 rows and 6 columns.

Details

Additional information is available from CCME (2021). “Glyphosate: Water Quality Guidelines for the Protection of Aquatic Life.” May 06, https://ccme.ca/en/chemical/102.

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_glyphosate, n=Inf)

CCME Species Sensitivity Data for ccme_silver

Description

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

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 9 rows and 6 columns.

Details

Additional information is available from CCME (2021). “Silver: Water Quality Guidelines for the Protection of Aquatic Life.” 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).
Medium: The medium (freshwater, marine, etc.) (chr).

Examples


print(ccme_silver, n=Inf)

CCME Species Sensitivity Data for ccme_uranium

Description

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

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 13 rows and 6 columns.

Details

Additional information is available from CCME (2021). “Uranium: Water Quality Guidelines for the Protection of Aquatic Life.” May 06, https://ccme.ca/en/chemical/225.

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_uranium, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for chlorine_marine

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation of Australia for chlorine in marine water.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 30 rows and 9 columns.

Details

These data were sourced from: Batley GE, Simpson SL (2020). “Short-Term Guideline Values for Chlorine in Marine Waters.” Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. ISSN 15528618. https://setac.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/etc.4661.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: Test duration (chr).
Group: Taxonomic grouping information (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Notes: Other notes (chr).
Species: The species names name (chr).
Test_endpoint: Endpoint statistic, EC10, NEC etc (chr).
Toxicity_measure: Type of toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

All concentration data are ug/L unless otherwise stated.

Examples


print(csiro_chlorine_marine, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for cobalt_marine

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation of Australia for cobalt in marine water.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 14 rows and 8 columns.

Details

These data were sourced from: Batley G (2021). “Unpublished data, anonymous information.” March 23.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: Test duration (chr).
Group: Taxonomic grouping information (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Species: The species names name (chr).
Test_endpoint: Endpoint statistic, EC10, NEC etc (chr).
Toxicity_measure: Type of toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

All concentration data are ug/L unless otherwise stated.

Examples


print(csiro_cobalt_marine, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data provided by CSIRO

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation of Australia.

Usage

csiro_data

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 91 rows and 12 columns.

Details

Additional information may be available from the primary source for each chemical:

chlorine_marine: Batley GE, Simpson SL (2020). “Short-Term Guideline Values for Chlorine in Marine Waters.” Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. ISSN 15528618. https://setac.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/etc.4661.
nickel_fresh: Stauber J, Golding L, Peters A, Merrington G, Adams M, Binet M, Batley G, Gissi F, Mcknight K, Garman E, Middleton E, Gadd J, Schlekat C (2021). “Environmental Toxicology Application of Bioavailability Models to Derive Chronic Guideline Values for Nickel in Freshwaters of Australia and New Zealand.” Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 40(1), 100–112. doi:10.1002/etc.4885. https://setac.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/etc.4885.
cobalt_marine: Batley G (2021). “Unpublished data, anonymous information.” March 23.
lead_marine: Batley G (2021). “Unpublished data, anonymous information.” March 23.

The columns are as follows, noting that not all information are available for all chemicals:

Chemical: The chemical name (chr).
Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Domain: Tropical, temperate or other filter (chr).
Duration: Test duration (chr).
Group: Taxonomic grouping information (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Medium: The test medium: "Freshwater" or "Marine" (chr).
Notes: Other notes (chr).
Species: The species names name (chr).
Test_endpoint: Endpoint statistic, EC10, NEC etc (chr).
Toxicity_measure: Type of toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

All concentration data are ug/L unless otherwise stated.

Examples


head(csiro_data)

Species Sensitivity Data for lead_marine

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation of Australia for lead in marine water.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 16 rows and 8 columns.

Details

These data were sourced from: Batley G (2021). “Unpublished data, anonymous information.” March 23.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Duration: Test duration (chr).
Group: Taxonomic grouping information (chr).
Life_stage: Life stage of the test organism (chr).
Species: The species names name (chr).
Test_endpoint: Endpoint statistic, EC10, NEC etc (chr).
Toxicity_measure: Type of toxicity measure used (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

All concentration data are ug/L unless otherwise stated.

Examples


print(csiro_lead_marine, n=Inf)

Species Sensitivity Data for nickel_fresh

Description

Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation of Australia for nickel in freshwater.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 31 rows and 7 columns.

Details

These data were sourced from: Stauber J, Golding L, Peters A, Merrington G, Adams M, Binet M, Batley G, Gissi F, Mcknight K, Garman E, Middleton E, Gadd J, Schlekat C (2021). “Environmental Toxicology Application of Bioavailability Models to Derive Chronic Guideline Values for Nickel in Freshwaters of Australia and New Zealand.” Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 40(1), 100–112. doi:10.1002/etc.4885. https://setac.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/etc.4885.

The columns are as follows:

Conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).
Domain: Tropical, temperate or other filter (chr).
Group: Taxonomic grouping information (chr).
Notes: Other notes (chr).
Species: The species names name (chr).
Test_endpoint: Endpoint statistic, EC10, NEC etc (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

All concentration data are ug/L unless otherwise stated.

Examples


print(csiro_nickel_fresh, n=Inf)

Acute Species Sensitivity Data from the EnviroTox Database

Description

Acute toxicity records (EC50/LC50) from the EnviroTox database 2.0.0 Connors KA, Beasley A, Barron MG, Belanger SE, Bonnell M, Brill JL, de Zwart D, Kienzler A, Krailler J, Otter R, Phillips JL, Embry MR (2019). “Creation of a Curated Aquatic Toxicology Database: EnviroTox.” Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 38(5), 1062–1073. doi:10.1002/etc.4382., aggregated to one geometric mean concentration per species per chemical.

Usage

envirotox_acute

Format

A tibble with 14,949 rows and 6 columns:

Chemical: Chemical name (chr).
Conc: Geometric mean concentration in micrograms per litre (dbl).
Species: Latin species name (chr).
Group: Taxonomic group of species (chr).
Yanagihara24: Whether the chemical meets the criteria of Yanagihara et al. (2024) (lgl).
Iwasaki25: Whether the chemical was included in Iwasaki et al. (2025) (lgl).

Details

The data are aggregated following the code provided by Yanagihara M, Hiki K, Iwasaki Y (2024). “Which distribution to choose for deriving a species sensitivity distribution? Implications from analysis of acute and chronic ecotoxicity data.” Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 278, 116379. doi:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2024.116379. with three exceptions: the dataset also includes chemicals with (1) a bimodality coefficient > 0.555, (2) between six and nine species, and (3) two trophic groups.

The logical column Yanagihara24 indicates whether a chemical meets the criteria used by Yanagihara et al. (2024): bimodality coefficient <= 0.555, at least 10 species, and at least three trophic groups.

The logical column Iwasaki25 indicates whether a chemical was included in the analysis by Iwasaki Y, Yanagihara M (2025). “Comparison of model-averaging and single-distribution approaches to estimating species sensitivity distributions and hazardous concentrations for 5\% of species.” Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 44(3), 834–840. doi:10.1093/etojnl/vgae060.: more than 50 species and at least three trophic groups, excluding certain metals.

See envirotox_chemical for the corresponding CAS Registry Numbers, and envirotox_data for the complete list dataset.

Source

https://envirotoxdatabase.org/

References

Connors KA, Beasley A, Barron MG, Belanger SE, Bonnell M, Brill JL, de Zwart D, Kienzler A, Krailler J, Otter R, Phillips JL, Embry MR (2019). “Creation of a Curated Aquatic Toxicology Database: EnviroTox.” Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 38(5), 1062–1073. doi:10.1002/etc.4382.

Yanagihara M, Hiki K, Iwasaki Y (2024). “Which distribution to choose for deriving a species sensitivity distribution? Implications from analysis of acute and chronic ecotoxicity data.” Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 278, 116379. doi:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2024.116379.

Iwasaki Y, Yanagihara M (2025). “Comparison of model-averaging and single-distribution approaches to estimating species sensitivity distributions and hazardous concentrations for 5\% of species.” Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 44(3), 834–840. doi:10.1093/etojnl/vgae060.

Examples


head(envirotox_acute)

Chemical Lookup Table for the EnviroTox Datasets

Description

A lookup table mapping chemical names to their original CAS Registry Numbers for all chemicals present in envirotox_acute and envirotox_chronic.

Usage

envirotox_chemical

Format

A tibble with 744 rows and 2 columns:

Chemical: Chemical name (chr).
OriginalCAS: Original CAS Registry Number (int).

Details

This table is a companion to envirotox_acute and envirotox_chronic. It is not an SSD-ready dataset but provides the CAS Registry Numbers needed to join the envirotox datasets to other chemical databases.

Source database: EnviroTox 2.0.0 Connors KA, Beasley A, Barron MG, Belanger SE, Bonnell M, Brill JL, de Zwart D, Kienzler A, Krailler J, Otter R, Phillips JL, Embry MR (2019). “Creation of a Curated Aquatic Toxicology Database: EnviroTox.” Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 38(5), 1062–1073. doi:10.1002/etc.4382..

See envirotox_data for the full list dataset including all three components.

Source

https://envirotoxdatabase.org/

References

Examples


head(envirotox_chemical)

Chronic Species Sensitivity Data from the EnviroTox Database

Description

Chronic toxicity records (NOEC/NOEL) from the EnviroTox database 2.0.0 Connors KA, Beasley A, Barron MG, Belanger SE, Bonnell M, Brill JL, de Zwart D, Kienzler A, Krailler J, Otter R, Phillips JL, Embry MR (2019). “Creation of a Curated Aquatic Toxicology Database: EnviroTox.” Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 38(5), 1062–1073. doi:10.1002/etc.4382., aggregated to one geometric mean concentration per species per chemical.

Usage

envirotox_chronic

Format

A tibble with 1,721 rows and 5 columns:

Chemical: Chemical name (chr).
Conc: Geometric mean concentration in micrograms per litre (dbl).
Species: Latin species name (chr).
Group: Taxonomic group of species (chr).
Yanagihara24: Whether the chemical meets the criteria of Yanagihara et al. (2024) (lgl).

Details

See envirotox_chemical for the corresponding CAS Registry Numbers, and envirotox_data for the complete list dataset.

Source

https://envirotoxdatabase.org/

References

Examples


head(envirotox_chronic)

Species Sensitivity Data from the EnviroTox Database

Description

A named list containing Species Sensitivity Distribution (SSD) datasets derived from the EnviroTox database 2.0.0 Connors KA, Beasley A, Barron MG, Belanger SE, Bonnell M, Brill JL, de Zwart D, Kienzler A, Krailler J, Otter R, Phillips JL, Embry MR (2019). “Creation of a Curated Aquatic Toxicology Database: EnviroTox.” Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 38(5), 1062–1073. doi:10.1002/etc.4382..

Usage

envirotox_data

Format

A named list with three elements:

acute: A tibble with 14,949 rows and 6 columns of acute toxicity records (EC50/LC50). See envirotox_acute for full column descriptions.
chronic: A tibble with 1,721 rows and 5 columns of chronic toxicity records (NOEC/NOEL). See envirotox_chronic for full column descriptions.
chemical: A tibble with 744 rows and 2 columns mapping chemical names to CAS Registry Numbers. See envirotox_chemical for full column descriptions.

Details

The envirotox data contains SSD datasets from the EnviroTox database 2.0.0 (Connors et al. 2019). The datasets are provided for assessing general patterns in SSD data and for testing code. The datasets should not be used to draw any conclusions about the toxicity of individual chemicals.

The data are aggregated following the code provided by Yanagihara M, Hiki K, Iwasaki Y (2024). “Which distribution to choose for deriving a species sensitivity distribution? Implications from analysis of acute and chronic ecotoxicity data.” Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 278, 116379. doi:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2024.116379. with three exceptions: the datasets also include chemicals with (1) a bimodality coefficient > 0.555, (2) between six and nine species, and (3) two trophic groups.

The logical column Yanagihara24 in ⁠$acute⁠ and ⁠$chronic⁠ indicates which chemicals meet the original criteria of Yanagihara et al. (2024): bimodality coefficient <= 0.555, at least 10 species, and at least three trophic groups.

The logical column Iwasaki25 in ⁠$acute⁠ indicates which chemicals were included in the analysis of Iwasaki Y, Yanagihara M (2025). “Comparison of model-averaging and single-distribution approaches to estimating species sensitivity distributions and hazardous concentrations for 5\% of species.” Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 44(3), 834–840. doi:10.1093/etojnl/vgae060.: more than 50 species and at least three trophic groups, excluding certain metals.

The full reproducible workflow to generate the three component datasets is in data-raw/envirotox/DATASET.R.

Source

https://envirotoxdatabase.org/

References

Examples


data("envirotox_data")
names(envirotox_data)
head(envirotox_data$acute)
head(envirotox_data$chronic)
head(envirotox_data$chemical)

List EnviroTox Dataset Names

Description

Lists the names of the envirotox datasets in ssddata.

Usage

envirotox_data_sets()

Value

A character vector of envirotox dataset names.

Examples

envirotox_data_sets()

Get SSD dataset

Description

Retrieves a specific SSD dataset, filtering and groups by species and applies a geometric mean in the case of duplicate records.

Usage

get_ssddata(
  dataset_name,
  filter_val = NULL,
  use_gmmean = TRUE,
  spp_vec = c("Species", "Genus"),
  conc = "Conc"
)

Arguments

dataset_name

The name (chr) of the desired dataset in ssddata.

filter_val

A character string, indicating the filter to be applied (value) (colname) and which column it applies to, separated by "_". Must be in the form colname_value.

use_gmmean

Logical indicating if a geometric mean should be applied.

spp_vec

The group_by columns to use for grouping data and applying a geometric mean.

conc

The name of the concentration (x data) column.

Value

The data.frame for dataset_name with any applied groupings and summary.

Examples

get_ssddata("ccme_boron")

Extract package dataset

Description

Retrieves a dataset from a loaded package by name

Usage

getdata(...)

Arguments

...

Arguments passed utils::data

Value

An object of class data frame.

Calculate geometric mean

Description

Calculates the geometric mean of a numeric vector

Usage

gm_mean(x, na.rm = FALSE, zero.propagate = TRUE)

Arguments

x

A numeric vector

na.rm

A flag specifying whether to remove missing values.

zero.propagate

A flag specifying whether to propagate zero values.

Value

A number of the geometric mean.

Examples

gm_mean(c(3, 66, 22, 17))

List EnviroTox Dataset Names (Deprecated)

Description

This function was named list_datasets() in the standalone envirotox package. It has been renamed to envirotox_data_sets() in ssddata. Please update your scripts to use envirotox_data_sets() instead.

Usage

list_datasets()

Value

A character vector of envirotox dataset names.

Examples

# Deprecated - use envirotox_data_sets() instead. Warns, then returns the
# same value as envirotox_data_sets().
list_datasets()

List SSD Datasets

Description

Returns a named list of SSD datasets from ssddata.

Usage

ssd_data_sets(
  set = "v2",
  split = NULL,
  summarize = "geomean",
  cas_lookup = TRUE
)

Arguments

set

A string or character vector controlling which datasets are returned. Options:

"v2" (default): all current individual non-aggregate datasets
"v1": fixed set of 20 datasets from ssddata v1
one or more prefix strings e.g. c("ccme", "anzg"): filters v2 by prefix
"wqbench": splits wqbench_data by Chemical
"envirotox_acute": splits envirotox_acute by Chemical
"envirotox_chronic": splits envirotox_chronic by Chemical
"anztox": splits anztox_data by chemicalname_grouped x mediatype
"alldata": aggregates all ⁠*_data⁠ sources and splits by Chemical

Note: aggregated values ("wqbench", "envirotox_acute", "envirotox_chronic", "anztox", "alldata") must be passed alone - they cannot be combined with each other or with prefix strings (e.g. c("wqbench", "ccme") is not supported and will error).

split

A character vector of column names to further split datasets by before returning. Columns absent from a dataset are silently skipped. Column values are appended to dataset names when the column is present. Default NULL applies no additional splitting.

summarize

A string controlling how duplicate Species rows within a chemical are handled. "geomean" (default) applies a geometric mean and emits a message; "none" returns data as-is and emits a message listing duplicates.

cas_lookup

A flag. When TRUE (default) and set = "alldata", uses data-raw/anztox/cas_parent_lookup.csv to align chemical names/CAS numbers across datasets before splitting (currently a no-op hook).

Value

A named list of tibbles. Every tibble is guaranteed to have Species as the first column and Conc as the second column. Datasets with no species information (⁠anon_*⁠) receive sequential species labels ("sp. A", "sp. B", ...). Additional columns follow in their original order.

Examples

ssd_data_sets()
ssd_data_sets(set = "v1")
ssd_data_sets(set = c("ccme", "anzg"))

Species Sensitivity Distribution Fit Data

Description

Species Sensitivity Distribution Fit Data

Usage

ssd_fits

Format

A tibble with 13 columns.

Dataset: The name of the dataset in the ssddata package (chr).
Filter: Any filtering applied to the data (chr).
Software: The name of the software (chr).
Version: The version of the software (chr).
Distribution: The name of the distribution (chr)
PC: The percent of the community protected (int).
Estimate: The estimated concentration, in the units given by Units (dbl).
SE: The standard error of the estimated concentration, in the units given by Units (dbl).
Lower: The lower 95% CI of the estimated concentration, in the units given by Units (dbl).
Upper: The upper 95% CI of the estimated concentration, in the units given by Units (dbl).
Reference: The source of the fit (chr).
Notes: Additional information on the fitting process (chr).
Units: The concentration units of Estimate, SE, Lower and Upper. Each fit is recorded on the scale of the ssddata dataset it was fitted to, so this is not uniform: one of "ug/L", "mg/L" or "ng/L" (for example ccme_boron and ccme_chloride are mg/L, ccme_endosulfan is ng/L), and NA for the anon_* datasets, whose concentrations are deliberately unitless (chr).

Examples

head(ssd_fits)

Species Sensitivity Data from US EPA ECOTOX Database

Description

This dataset contains species sensitivity records for multiple chemicals. The data are from the US EPA ECOTOX database but are cleaned and standardized by the wqbench package.

Usage

wqbench_data

Format

A tibble with columns:

Chemical: The chemical common name (chr).
cas: The chemical cas number (chr).
Species: The species latin name (chr).
common_name: The species common name (chr).
effect: The effect that was being tested (chr).
conc: The chemical concentration in micrograms per litre (dbl).
trophic_group: Trophic group of species (fct).
ecological_group: Identification of salmonids and planktonic invertebrates; otherwise "other" (fct).
species_present_in_bc: Whether species is present in British Columbia, Canada (logi).
class: The class name (chr).
tax_order: The order name (chr).
family: The family name (chr).

Details

These data were sourced from: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2025). “ECOTOXicology Knowledgebase.” Accessed 2025, https://cfpub.epa.gov/ecotox/.

The data cleaning steps closely follow the wqbench processing procedures and the resulting data should be very similar.

In brief, the wqbench processing compiles data from the ECOTOX database by firstly classifying tests as either acute or chronic; converting any acute data to chronic based on published acute to chronic ratios; and finally aggregating data into a single row for each individual species.

Aggregation is achieved by grouping data by life stage; selecting the most sensitive endpoint; selecting the most preferred toxicity estimate(s) in the event that more than one are available; and applying a geometric mean if more than one value for the preferred toxicity metric are available for the most sensitive endpoint.

Some deviations from the wqbench processing steps were applied to generalise the data set beyond a focus on British Columbia (BC), and in part to align with technical guidance from other jurisdictions (for example, Australia and New Zealand, ANZG).

Deviations from the wqbench processing steps include:

All chemicals with six or more species are included regardless of whether they contain species present in BC. These would be excluded for wqbench which was designed with the aim of being representative for BC.
Only chemicals with representative species for four or more taxonomic classes are included. This was done to align somewhat with the methods for ANZG (https://www.waterquality.gov.au/anz-guidelines/guideline-values/derive/warne-method-derive-2025) which requires guidelines are derived only when there are taxa from four or more "distinct taxa". Using class to define "distinct taxa" only approximates this requirement, because the definition provided in the ANZG is not linked directly to any one taxonomic hierarchical level and therefore cannot be applied in any automated way using the taxonomic hierarchy.

Examples


print(wqbench_data)

Package {ssddata}

ssddata: Species Sensitivity Distribution Data

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Anonymous Species Sensitivity Data anon_d

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