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advanced contaminant risk modeling
adverse effects
Analyses of tissues
and dioxins
aquatic biota
Aquatic organisms
aquatic toxicology
Bioaccumulative contaminants
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Black Crowned Night Herons
Body Residues
Cadmium Concentrations
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Common Eiders
concentrations
crowned
cyclodiene
data interpretation
DDT
dibenzofurans
Dietary Cadmium
Dietary Concentrations
dioxins
Ecological risk assessment
ecotoxicology
Endocrine Disruption
environmental contaminants
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freshwater fishes
Great Blue Heron
Harbor Seals
Heptachlor Epoxide
heron
Herring Gull
Hg Concentrations
Lethal Concentration
mammal
marine
marine mammals
mercury
metal contaminants
methylmercury
Moisture Content
Ng TEQs
night
organic contaminants
organochlorine pesticide effects
organochlorine pesticides
organohalogen pesticides
organotins
PBDEs
PCBs and PBDEs
pesticide residues
Plasma Concentrations
radionuclides
River Otter
Se Concentrations
Sea Ducks
selenium accumulation
Species Sensitivity Distributions
Stenella Coeruleoalba
tissue
Tissue Residue
tissue residue evaluation
Total Hg Concentrations
trace metal analysis
weight
wet
Wet Weight
wild birds
wildlife exposure assessment
wildlife toxicology

Product details

  • ISBN 9781420084054
  • Weight: 1496g
  • Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
  • Publication Date: 23 Feb 2011
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

Examining tissue residues of contaminants in biota reveals the movement of contaminants within organisms and through food chains as well as the context for understanding and quantifying injuries to organisms and their communities. Yet tissue concentrations of some contaminants are especially challenging to interpret and the ability of today’s analytical chemists to provide reliable analytical data of most important environmental contaminants often surpasses the ability of ecotoxicologists to interpret those data.

Offering guidance on the ecotoxicologically meaningful interpretation of tissue concentrations, Environmental Contaminants in Biota, Interpreting Tissue Concentrations, Second Edition is updated with current data and new ways of analyzing those data as well as additional contaminants not previously considered. Beginning with a history of wildlife toxicology and data interpretation, chapters cover a wide range of contaminants and their hazardous and lethal concentrations in various animals including DDT, Dioxins, PCBs, and PBDEs in aquatic organisms; methylmurcury, selenium, and trace metals in fishes and aquatic invertebrates; and pharmaceuticals and organic contaminants in marine mammals. The book considers the impact of Polychlorinated Biphenyls, Dibenzo-p-Dioxins and Dibenzofurans, and Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers; cyclodiene; and other organochlorine pesticides in birds and mammals. Later chapters examine the effects and analysis of lead, cadmium, and radionuclides in biota.

With thousands of published research papers reporting tissue concentrations each year, Environmental Contaminants in Biota, Interpreting Tissue Concentrations, Second Edition gives ecotoxicologists the ability to draw actionable value regarding the toxicological consequences of those concentrations and relate tissue concentrations quantitatively to injury: the core of ecotoxicology.
About
Dr. W. Nelson Beyer is an ecotoxicologist at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, in the U.S. Geological Survey. He earned a doctorate in terrestrial ecology from Cornell University in 1976, studying the natural history of slugs, and remains curious about all manner of living things. With help from colleagues in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, he has examined contaminated sites, studying phytotoxic injury to the chestnut oak forest adjacent to the Palmerton zinc smelters in Pennsylvania, lead poisoning of swans and other waterfowl in the Coeur d’Alene River Basin in Idaho, and zinc poisoning of wild birds at the Tri-State Mining District in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri. Many of his studies have documented the movement of environmental contaminants from soil and sediments into wildlife and through food chains, often showing how ingestion of soil or sediment is the most important route of exposure of lead and related metals to wildlife. Recently he has turned his eye toward sediment ingestion by bottom-feeding fish. He believes in using tissue residues as a means to emphasize injury to animals, basic to wildlife toxicology. His work is usually conducted to support Natural Resource Damage Assessments. He balances his down-to-earth approach to wildlife toxicology, however, with an inordinate fondness for clouds. His daily cycling inspires him, and his wife, Mary, keeps his laboratory running. Dr. James P. Meador is an environmental toxicologist with the National Marine Fisheries Service in Seattle, WA, U.S., which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Jim has a Ph.D. in aquatic toxicology from the University of Washington and has more than 30 years experience in the field. He has been with NOAA for 20 years and has previously worked at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Naval Oceans Systems Center in San Diego. For many years he has studied the environmental factors that control the bioavailability of contaminants and their role in bioaccumulation with the goal of developing relationships for predicting tissue concentrations, especially for aquatic species in the field. This work was supplemented with toxicokinetic studies that are useful for predicting bioaccumulation and highlighting species-specific differences in toxic responses. Gradually, these studies evolved to include analysis of toxic effects as a function of bioaccumulated tissue concentrations. In 2007, Jim organized and chaired a Pellston workshop, sponsored by the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, to review the tissue residue approach for toxicity assessment. His current research is focused on alterations to growth and energetics in fish resulting from low-dose exposure to a variety of environmental contaminants. Jim has been married for 30 years to Susan, a recently retired NOAA statistician, who keeps him busy in the garden and serves as his buddy on their tropical-therapy SCUBA diving trips. He is also an avid bicycle rider/commuter and logs far more miles on his bike than on his car.