Demographic Toxicity : Methods in Ecological Risk Assessment.
Title:
Demographic Toxicity : Methods in Ecological Risk Assessment.
Author:
Akcakaya, H. Resit.
ISBN:
9780199715640
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (288 pages)
Contents:
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 Viability -- 6 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 Exposure -- 10 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 capitata -- 14 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 gyrociliatus -- Appendix: Using RAMAS GIS -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
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 F. Gaines and James M. Novak;. 5. Earthworms (Lumbricus rubellus) in North-western Europe: sub- lethal effects of copper on population viability, Chris Klok;. 6. Stressor Impacts on Common Loons in New Hampshire, USA: A Demonstration Study for Effects of Stressors Distributed Across Space, Steven Walters, Anne Kuhn, Matthew C. Nicholson, Jane Copeland, Steven A. Rego, Diane E. Nacci;. 7. Population-level effects of PCBs on wood frogs (Rana sylvatica) breeding in vernal pools associated with the Housatonic River, Pittsfield to Lenoxdale, Massachusetts, W.T. Tucker, J.D. Litzgus, S. Ferson, H.R. Akcakaya, M. Thompson, D. Fort, and J. Lortie;. 8. Potential effects of freshwater and estuarine contaminant exposure on Lower Columbia River Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) populations, Julann A. Spromberg and Lyndal L. Johnson;. 9. Water Flea Daphnia pulex: Population Recovery after Pesticide Exposure, John D. Stark;. 10. Lymnaea stagnalis: the effects of experimental demographic reduction on population dynamics, Marie-Agnes Coutellec, Thierry Caquet and Laurent Lagadic;. 11. Pollution, stochasticity and spatial heterogeneity in the dynamics of an age-structured population of brown trout living in a river network, A. Chaumot and S. Charles;. 12. Using a
spatial modeling approach to explore ecological factors relevant to the persistence of an estuarine fish (Fundulus heterclitus) in a PCB-contaminated estuary, D.E. Nacci, S. Walters, T. Gleason, and W.R. Munns, Jr.;. 13. Demographic effects of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, Fluoranthene, on two sibling species of the polychaete, Capitella capitata, Annemette Palmqvist and Valery E. Forbes ;. 14. Application of population modeling to a causal analysis of the decline the Cherry Point Pacific herring (Clupea pallasi) stock, Wayne G. Landis;. 15. Endocrine disruption in Eelpout (Zoarces viviparus) on the Swedish Baltic coast: Population-level effects of male-biased broods, Niklas Hanson;. 16. Leptocheirus plumulosus in the upper Chesapeake Bay: sediment toxicity effects at the metapopulation level, Todd S. Bridges, H. Resit Akcakaya, Barry Bunch;. 17. Applications of Life-Table Response Experiment to the evaluation of toxicants effects at population level with the polychaete Dinophilus gyrociliatus, R. Simonini, D. Prevedelli and M. Mauri. Appendix: Using RAMAS GIS.
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