Risk hypotheses

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-024378",
  "term": "Risk hypotheses",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "Proposed answers to questions risk assessors have about what responses assessment endpoints will show when they are exposed to stressors and how exposure will occur. Risk hypotheses clarify and articulate relationships that are posited through the consideration of available data, information from scientific literature, and the best professional judgment of risk assessors developing the conceptual models.",
  "subject": "Ecosystems",
  "references": [
    "N-STEPS Online Glossary of Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/risk-hypotheses/"
}