Fundamentals of Ecotoxicology The Science of Pollution, Fifth Edition

Preface

Acknowledgments

Author

Guest Authors

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Major Classes of Contaminants

Chapter 3. Uptake, Biotransformation, Detoxification, Elimination, and Accumulation

Chapter 4. Factors Influencing Bioaccumulation

Chapter 5. Bioaccumulation from Food and Trophic Transfer

Chapter 6. Molecular Effects and Biomarkers

Chapter 7. Cells, Tissues, and Organs

Chapter 8. Sublethal Effects to Individuals

Chapter 9. Acute and Chronic Lethal Effects to Individuals

Chapter 10. Effects on Populations

Chapter 11. Effects to Communities and Ecosystems

Chapter 12. Landscape to Global Effects

Chapter 13. Risk and Damage Assessment of Contaminants

Chapter 14. Conclusions

Appendix 1. International System (SI) of Units Prefixes

Appendix 2. Miscellaneous Conversion Factors

Appendix 3. Summary of U.S. Laws and Regulations

Appendix 4. Summary of European Union Laws and Regulations

Appendix 5. Summary of Modern Environmental Laws and Regulations of China

Appendix 6. Regulation and Management of Chemicals in Australia: A 2019 Update

Appendix 7. Summary of Indian Environmental Laws and Regulations

Appendix 8. Summary of Brazilian Environmental Law and Regulations

Appendix 9. Derivation of Units for Simple Bioaccumulation Models

Appendix 10. Equations for the Estimation of Exposure

Appendix 11. Imposex status and tissue TBT and TPT concentration of the rock shell Reishia clavigera

Study Questions

Glossary

References

Index

Biography

Mike Newman is currently the A. Marshall Acuff, Jr. Professor of Marine Science at the College of William and Mary School of Marine Science where he also served as Dean of Graduate Studies from 1999 to 2002. Previously, he was a faculty member at the University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. His research interests include quantitative ecotoxicology, environmental statistics, risk assessment, population effects of contaminants, metal chemistry, bioaccumulation and biomagnification modeling, and during the last 15 years, qualities of innovative concepts and technologies that foster or inhibit their adoption by the ecotoxicology scientific community. In addition to more than 150 articles, he authored six books and edited another five on these topics. He served numerous international, national, and regional organizations including the OECD, US EPA Science Advisory Board, US EPA ECOFRAM, US EPA STAA, and the US National Academy of Science NRC. He was a Fulbright Senior Scholar and a Government of Kerala Scholar in Residence/Erudite Scholar. In 2004, the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) awarded him its Founder’s Award, “the highest SETAC award, given to a person with an outstanding career who has made a clearly identifiable contribution in the environmental sciences.” In 2014, he was named a SETAC Fellow for “long-term and significant scientific and science policy contributions.”