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Ecological Modeling in Risk Assessment Chemical Effects on Populations, Ecosystems, and Landscapes
324 Pages
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CRC Press
324 Pages
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CRC Press
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Toxic chemicals can exert effects on all levels of the biological hierarchy, from cells to organs to organisms to populations to entire ecosystems. However, most risk assessment models express their results in terms of effects on individual organisms, without corresponding information on how populations, groups of species, or whole ecosystems may respond to chemical stressors. Ecological Modeling... Read more
INTRODUCTION. Objectives. Selecting and Using Ecological Models in Ecological Risk Assessment. METHODS. Compilation and Review of Models. Selection of Models for Further Development and Use. Workshop on Ecological Modeling. RESULTS OF THE EVALUATION OF ECOLOGICAL MODELING. Population Models - Scalar Abundance. Population Models - Life History. Population Models - Individual-Based. Population Models - Metapopulations. Ecosystem Models - Food-Webs. Ecosystem Models - Aquatic. Ecosystem Models - Terrestrial. Landscape Models - Aquatic and Terrestrial. Toxicity-Extrapolation Models. ENHANCING THE USE OF ECOLOGICAL MODELS IN DECISION-MAKING. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS. REFERENCES.
Biography
Robert A. Pastorok, Steven M. Bartell, Scott Ferson, Lev R. Ginzburg
