Demographic toxicity [[electronic resource] ] : methods in ecological risk assessment / / edited by H. Reşit Akçakaya, John D. Stark, Todd S. Bridges

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Disciplina: 577.27
• Soggetto topico: Pollution - Environmental aspects; Pollution - Physiological effect; Population biology; Ecological risk assessment
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: Ak©ıcakayaH. R StarkJohn D BridgesTodd S
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Viability6 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 Exposure10 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 capitata14 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 gyrociliatusAppendix: Using RAMAS GIS; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, S. Jannicke Moe, Anja B. Kristoffersen, Nils Chr. Stenseth. 3. Population-Level Modeling of Mercury Stress on the Florida Panther (Puma concolor coryi) Metapopulation, Sandy Raimondo and Mace G. Barron;. 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, Karen
• Titolo autorizzato: Demographic toxicity
• ISBN: 1-281-52926-5; 9786611529260; 0-19-971564-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454348803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II