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Ecological risk assessment of contaminants in soil

1997
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Illustrates the strengthening scientific basis for the ecotoxicology approach and how this is helping substantially in environmental agencies who are concerned with problems of methodology. Looks in depth at how specifically ecological principles can help in the assessment of soil pollution risk.
Main title:
Ecological risk assessment of contaminants in soil / edited by Nico M. van Straalen and Hans Løkke.
Imprint:
London : Chapman and Hall, 1997.
Collation:
333 pages. : illustrations
Notes:
"An initiative of the SERAS network.""Supported by the Netherlands Integrated Soil Research Programme."Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment Management Trust collection
Contents:
Ecological approaches in soil toxicology - Scientific basis for extrapolating results from soil ecotoxicology tests to field conditions and the use of bioassays - Is it possible to develop microbial test systems to evaluate pollution effects on soil nutrient cycling? - Populations in soil - Ecotoxicology, biodiversity and the species concept with special reference to springtails (Insecta: Collembola) - Effects of toxicants on population and community parameters in field conditions, and their potential use in the validation of risk assessment methods - Linking structure and function in marine sedimentary and terrestrial soil ecosystems: Implications for extrapolation from the laboratory to the field - A food-web approach to assess the effects of disturbance on ecosystem structure, function and stability - The spatial component of soil communities - Scale dependency in the ecological risks posed by pollutants: is there a role for ecological theory in risk assessment - Dispersal, heterogeneity and resistance: challenging soil quality assessmentThe use of models in ecological risk assessment - A physiologically driven mathematical simulation model as a tool for extension of results from laboratory tests to ecosystem effects - Extrapolation of laboratory toxicity results to the field: a case study using the OECD artificial soil earthworm toxicity test - Life-table study with the springtail Folsomia candida (Willem) exposed to cadmium, chlorpyrifos and triphenyltin hydroxide - Reaction norms for life-history traits as the basis for the evaluation of critical effect levels of toxicants - Estimating fitness costs of pollution in iteroparous invertebrates - Soil ecotoxicology: still new ways to explore or just paving the road?
ISBN:
0412759004
Dewey class:
363.7396
Language:
English
BRN:
319022
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