The third in a five-volume series intended to provide students of ecotoxicology with an understanding beyond that afforded by a general textbook, yet to keep the focus on paradigms and fundamental methods that are usually neglected in more specialized books. Among the topics are biotic and abiotic factors that regulate communities, biomonitoring and the responses of communities to contaminants, experimental approaches, multimetric and multivariate approaches, disturbance ecology, and global and atmospheric stressors. The other volumes consider different scales: individuals, populations, ecosystems and landscapes, and the entire biosphere. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Ecotoxicology is the study of the effects of toxicants on ecological systems. Ecological effects of contaminants may occur at several levels of biological organisation, from individual organisms to the entire biosphere. Communities consist of interacting populations that overlap in time and space. Thus, community ecotoxicology is concerned with effects of contaminants on communities. This is one of a series of five books that will provide a comprehensive treatment of field ecotoxicology, it provides important insights into how contaminants affect the distribution and abundance of organisms in nature.
- Both authors are well known highly respected scientists in the field.
- The first book to be dedicated to 'community ecotoxicology.'
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