Ecological Modeling in Risk Assessment: Chemical Effects on Populations, Ecosystems, and Landscapes

Toxic chemicals can exert effects on all levels of the biological hierarchy, from cells to organs to organisms to populations to entire ecosystems. However, most risk assessment models express their results in terms of effects on individual organisms, without corresponding information on how populations, groups of species, or whole ecosystems may respond to chemical stressors. Ecological Modeling in Risk Assessment: Chemical Effects on Populations,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566705746
• ISBN13: 9781566705745
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 10.2"