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Series foreword | ||
Preface | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
1 | Answers to some important questions | 1 |
1.1 | What is ecotoxicology? | 2 |
1.2 | Pollution: what is it and what does it do? | 8 |
1.3 | What is the scope of ecotoxicology? | 15 |
1.4 | How are assessment and prediction accomplished? | 22 |
1.5 | Who performs ecotoxicity tests? | 24 |
2 | Decision making in ecotoxicology: science and society meet | 28 |
2.1 | Scientific and public perceptions | 29 |
2.2 | Deciding what to protect | 34 |
2.3 | Deciding what is significant | 42 |
2.4 | Deciding what is acceptable | 43 |
2.5 | Obstacles to scientific understanding | 44 |
2.6 | Ecosystem health: a fit phrase? | 48 |
2.7 | Decisions in risk assessment | 51 |
2.8 | Decisions in risk management | 62 |
3 | Measuring ecotoxicological effects on populations, communities and ecosystems | 66 |
3.1 | Field monitoring | 67 |
3.2 | Communities | 71 |
3.3 | Populations: studies of whole organisms | 82 |
3.4 | Populations: physiological and biochemical studies | 88 |
3.5 | Populations: genetic studies | 98 |
3.6 | Summary and conclusions | 103 |
4 | Room for improvement | 105 |
4.1 | Application of toxicity testing in ecotoxicology | 105 |
4.2 | Dose-effect | 106 |
4.3 | Problems with laboratory toxicity tests | 109 |
4.4 | Problems with standardization | 116 |
4.5 | Ring tests, variability and standardization | 127 |
4.6 | Importance of power | 133 |
4.7 | Where is the eco? | 137 |
4.8 | Tolerance as a quantitative phenotypic trait | 139 |
5 | Integrated ecotoxicology: linking fate and effect within a biological hierarchy | 149 |
5.1 | A fundamental problem | 149 |
5.2 | The approach | 150 |
5.3 | Diagenesis of polyaromatic hydrocarbons in marine sediments | 154 |
5.4 | The case of the missing benthos | 158 |
5.5 | Effects of bioturbational mixing | 166 |
5.6 | Linking fate and effect through the biological mixing parameter [subscript B] | 168 |
5.7 | Coupling fate and effect to the population level of organization | 174 |
5.8 | Quantifying the effect of bioturbation on biodegradation | 178 |
5.9 | The science gap | 180 |
6 | Ecotoxicology: past, present and future | 184 |
6.1 | Where have we been? | 185 |
6.2 | Where are we now? | 195 |
6.3 | Where are we going? | 204 |
6.4 | How do we get there from here? | 213 |
References | 221 | |
Index | 242 |
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