Kendall / Lacher / Cobb Wildlife Toxicology

Emerging Contaminant and Biodiversity Issues
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4398-1795-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, 340 Seiten

Updating the extremely successful Wildlife Toxicology and Population Modeling (CRC Press, 1994), Wildlife Toxicology: Emerging Contaminant and Biodiversity Issues brings together a distinguished group of international contributors, who provide a global assessment of a range of environmental stressors, including pesticides, environmental contaminants, and other emerging chemical threats, and their impact on wildlife populations.

Addresses Emerging Wildlife Threats in One Concise Volume
A decade ago, many of these threats existed but were either unrecognized or considered minor issues, and all have now snowballed into major challenges for the conservation of wildlife populations. This is the first book to address these dangers in a single volume and recommend proven mitigation techniques to protect and sustain Earth’s wildlife populations.

Examines Species Range Shifts, Ocean Acidification, Coral Bleaching, & Impacts of Heightened UV Influx
This comprehensive reference identifies and documents examples of chemical stressor exposures and responses among ecosystem receptors worldwide. Chapters discuss emerging diseases and the expansion of pesticide/contaminant use, as well as agricultural trends and biofuels, and the widespread use of munitions and explosives from military and industrial-related activities. With the aid of several solid case studies, the book also addresses atmospheric contaminants and climate change, population modeling, and emerging transnational issues in ecotoxicology.

Wildlife Toxicology: Emerging Contaminant and Biodiversity Issues stimulates dialogue among the academic and research communities and environmental public policy decision makers. The book challenges these groups to think more globally about environmental contaminants and their potential impacts on biodiversity and environmental degradation.

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Zielgruppe

Wildlife toxicologists, scientists, and conservation biologists; ecotoxicologists, environmental toxicologists and consultants, government risk assessors (EPA, NOAA, NIH, etc.), and state and federal wildlife agencies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kendall, Ronald J.

Lacher, Thomas E.

Cobb, George C.

Cox, Stephen Boyd

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Naturschutzbiologie, Biodiversität
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Toxikologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Biodiversität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction and Overview
Ronald J. Kendall
Environmental Toxicology of Munitions-Related Compounds: Nitroaromatics and Nitramines
Todd A. Anderson
Agriculture: Pesticides, Plants, and Biofuels
Spencer R. Mortensen, Thomas E. Nickson, and George P. Cobb
Influence of Pesticides and Environmental Contaminants on Emerging Diseases of Wildlife
Steven M. Presley, Galen P. Austin, C. Brad Dabbert
Impacts of Contaminants and Pesticides on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Structure and Function
Thomas E. Lacher, Jr., John Bickham, Claude Gascon, Rhys Green, Robin D. Moore, and Miguel Mora
Impacts of Anthropogenic CO2 and Climate Change on the Biology of Terrestrial and Marine Systems
Lee Hannah
Statistical Models in Wildlife Toxicology
Stephen B. Cox
Global Perspectives on Wildlife Toxicology: Emerging Issues
Philip N. Smith, Mohamad Afzal, Redha Al-Hasan, Henk Bouwman, Michael H. Depledge, Muralidharan Subramanian, Venugopal Dhananjayan, Cristina Fossi, Malsha Kitulagodage, Henrik Kylin, Robin Law, Letizia Marsili, Todd O’Hara, Paul Story, Céline Godard-Codding, Luisa Eugenia Castillo, and Manuel Spinola
Ecological Risk Assessment and Emerging Issues in Wildlife Toxicology
Christopher J. Salice
Looking Forward: The Global Future of Wildlife Toxicology
Ronald J. Kendall, Todd A. Anderson, George P. Cobb, Stephen B. Cox, Lee Hannah, Thomas E. Lacher, Jr., Steven M. Presley, Christopher J. Salice, and Philip N. Smith

Über Autor(innen)

Ronald J. Kendall, Ph.D., is the director of The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH). He is also chair of the Department of Environmental Toxicology at Texas Tech University in Lubbock and former president of SETAC.
Thomas E. Lacher, Jr., Ph.D., is head of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences at Texas A & M University in College Station.
George P. Cobb III, Ph.D., is a professor of Environmental Toxicology, TlEHH, at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. He is also the incoming president of SETAC.
Stephen Boyd Cox, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Environmental Toxicology, TlEHH, at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.