Principles of ecotoxicology / C.H. Walker [and others].
This text identifies the major classes of pollutants and their environmental fate before moving on to consider the effects that they might have on individual organisms and on ecosystems.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton :
CRC,
[2006]
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
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| Summary: | This text identifies the major classes of pollutants and their environmental fate before moving on to consider the effects that they might have on individual organisms and on ecosystems. "Principles of Ecotoxicology, Third Edition features new material on pollutants that are receiving closer scrutiny, naturally occurring poisons, the history of chemical warfare, population risk assessment, community structure, nenoicotinoids, endocrine disruption, and neurotoxicity. A new section on extrapolating from molecular interaction to the consequent population changes highlights the molecules to ecosystem approach and provides the groundwork for discussions on the employment of biomarker strategies in field studies. A major theme of the new material is how the concepts discussed can contribute to improved methods of environmental risk assessment. With updates to every chapter, this text provides essential information in an easy to use format."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Item Description: | Previous ed.: 2001. |
| Physical Description: | 315 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-303) and index. |
| ISBN: | 084933635X 9780849336355 |