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Ecotoxicology:

1461235200

9781461235200

b554090

Ecotoxicology:

[Book]

Problems and Approaches

edited by Simon A. Levin, John R. Kelly, Mark A. Harwell, Kenneth D. Kimball.

New York, NY

Springer New York

1989

(xiii, 547 pages 91 illustrations).

Springer Advanced Text in Life Sciences.

From the contents: Ecotoxicology: Problems and Approaches --;Anthropogenic Stresses on Ecosystems: Issues and Indicators of Response and Recovery --;Effects of Heavy Metals in a Polluted Aquatic Ecosystem --;Determining the Ecological Effects of Oil Pollution in Marine Ecosystems --;The Effects of Chemical Stress on Aquatic Species Composition and Community Structure --;Chemical Stress in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Mechanisms and Patterns of Disturbance --;Mathematical Models: Fate, Transport, and Food Chain --;Deterministic and Statistical Models of Chemical Fate in Aquatic Systems --;Bioaccumulation of Hydrophobic Organic Pollutant Compounds --;Environmental Chemical Stress Effects Associated with Carbon and Phosphorus Biochemical Cycles --;Biomonitoring: Closing the Loop in the Environmental Sciences --;Ecotoxicology Beyond Sensitivity: A Case Study Involving "Unreasonableness" of Environmental Change --;Regulatory Framework for Ecotoxicology --;Environmental Decision-making in the Presence of Uncertainty.

Ecotoxicology is the science that seeks to predict the impacts of chemi- cals upon ecosystems. This ecosystem basis for ecotoxicology was the major theme of a previous pUblication by the Ecosystems Research Center at Cornell University, a special issue of Environmental Management (Levin et al.

Ecology.

Environmental toxicology.

Life sciences.

edited by Simon A. Levin, John R. Kelly, Mark A. Harwell, Kenneth D. Kimball.

John R Kelly

Kenneth D Kimball

Mark A Harwell

Simon A Levin

[Book]

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