Overview

As the discipline of ecotoxicology grows and develops, the concepts and data used are proving increasingly useful in improving the quality of risk assessment of soil pollution by professional scientists in a regulation context as well as in research. This volume illustrates how strengthening scientific basis for the ecotoxicological approach is helping substantially in environmental policy decision making. This book should be of interest to ecotoxicologists, pollution control managers, soil scientists, environmental scientists, toxicologists, applied ecologists and agriculturalists.

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Author:   N.M. Van Straalen ,  Hans Løkke
Publisher:   Chapman and Hall
Imprint:   Chapman and Hall
Edition:   1997 ed.
Volume:   v. 5
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.490kg
ISBN:  

9780412759000

ISBN 10:   0412759004
Pages:   333
Publication Date:   31 May 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Ecological approaches in soil ecotoxicology.- One Extrapolation From Experiments.- 2 Scientific basis for extrapolating results from soil ecotoxicity tests to field conditions and the use of bioassays.- 3 Is it possible to develop microbial test systems to evaluate pollution effects on soil nutrient cycling?.- Two Populations in Soil.- 4 Ecotoxicology, biodiversity and the species concept with special reference to springtails (Insecta: Collembola).- 5 Effects of toxicants on population and community parameters in field conditions, and their potential use in the validation of risk assessment methods.- Three The Soil as an Ecosystem.- 6 Linking structure and function in marine sedimentary and terrestrial soil ecosystems: implications for extrapolation from the laboratory to the field.- 7 A food-web approach to assess the effects of disturbance on ecosystem structure, function and stability.- Four The Spatial Component of Soil Communities.- 8 Scale dependency in the ecological risks posed by pollutants: is there a role for ecological theory in risk assessment?.- 9 Dispersal, heterogeneity, and resistance: challenging soil quality assessment.- Five The Role of Ecological Modelling.- 10 The use of models in ecological risk assessment.- 11 A physiologically driven mathematical simulation model as a tool for extension of results from laboratory tests to ecosystem effects.- Six Ecological Approaches: Case Studies.- 12 Extrapolation of laboratory toxicity results to the field: a case study using the OECD artificial soil earthworm toxicity test.- 13 Life-table study with the springtail Folsomia candida (Willem) exposed to cadmium, chlorpyrifos and triphenyltin hydroxide.- 14 Reaction norms for life-history traits as the basis for the evaluation of critical effect levels of toxicants.- 15 Estimating fitness costs of pollution in iteroparous invertebrates.- Seven Recommendations.- 16 Soil ecotoxicology: still new ways to explore or just paving the road?.

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