Demographic toxicity : methods in ecological risk assessment /

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Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Description:ix, 277 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7135848
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Varying Form of Title:CD-ROM title: RAMAS GIS demo and model files for 16 species
Other authors / contributors:Akc̜akaya, H. R.
Stark, John D.
Bridges, Todd S.
ISBN:9780195332964 (cloth : alk. paper)
0195332962 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Contributing Authors
  • 1. Demographic Toxicity: Assessing the Population-Level Impacts of Contaminants
  • 2. Lucilia sericata Laboratory Populations: Toxicant Effects Modified by Stage-Specific Density Dependence and Stochasticity
  • 3. Population-Level Modeling of Mercury Stress in the Florida Panther (Puma concolor coryi) Metapopulation
  • 4. Raccoon (Procyon lotor) Harvesting on and near the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River Site: Utility of Metapopulation Modeling for Prediction and Management of Hunter Risk
  • 5. Earthworms (Lumbricus rubellus) in Northwestern Europe: Sublethal Effects of Copper on Population Viability
  • 6. Stressor Impacts on Common Loons in New Hampshire, USA: A Demonstration Study for Effects of Stressors Distributed across Space
  • 7. Population-Level Effects of PCBs on Wood Frogs (Rana sylvatica) Breeding in Vernal Pools Associated with the Housatonic River, Pittsfield to Lenoxdale, Massachusetts
  • 8. Potential Effects of Freshwater and Estuarine Contaminant Exposure on Lower Columbia River Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Populations
  • 9. Water Flea Daphnia pulex: Population Recovery after Pesticide Exposure
  • 10. Lymnaea stagnalis: The Effects of Experimental Demographic Reduction on Population Dynamics
  • 11. Pollution, Stochasticity, and Spatial Heterogeneity in the Dynamics of an Age-Structured Population of Brown Trout Living in a River Network
  • 12. Using a Spatial Modeling Approach to Explore Ecological Factors Relevant to the Persistence of an Estuarine Fish (Fundulus heteroclitus) in a PCB-Contaminated Estuary
  • 13. Demographic Effects of the Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Fluoranthene on Two Sibling Species of the Polychaete Capitella capitata
  • 14. Application of Population Modeling to a Causal Analysis of the Decline in the Cherry Point Pacific Herring (Clupea pallasi) Stock
  • 15. Endocrine Disruption in Eelpout (Zoarces viviparus) on the Swedish Baltic Coast: Population-Level Effects of Male-Biased Broods
  • 16. Leptocheirus plumulosus in the Upper Chesapeake Bay: Sediment Toxicity Effects at the Metapopulation Level
  • 17. Applications of Life Table Response Experiments to the Evaluation of Toxicant Effects at the Population Level with the Polychaete Dinophilus gyrociliatus
  • Appendix: Using RAMAS GIS
  • Index