By Erik Jorgensen
The ebook, with a complete of forty eight chapters, is split into 3 components. the 1st half comprises the fundamental innovations of ecotoxicology, beginning with an introductory bankruptcy on ecotoxicology as a subdiscipline of ecology; review on ecotoxicological results and chance; and homes and results of poisonous chemical substances. those issues are extra mentioned in the course of the e-book, besides nomenclature, focal themes, and the historical past of ecotoxicology.
The ultimate components take on damaging homes and destructive chemical compounds. the second one half additionally covers bioaccumulation, bioavailability, biodegradability, biodegradation, and biomagnification. It additionally presents versions for ecotoxicological populations, ecosystems and landscapes, and on food-web bioaccumulation. chemical compounds together with benzene, copper, lead, nitrogen, phenols, pheromones, phthalates, plutonium, and uranium are coated in separate chapters within the ultimate half.
This publication could be of serious price to ecologists, ecotoxicologists, and environmental managers.
- Provides an summary of the idea and alertness of worldwide ecology
- International concentration and variety of ecosystems makes Ecotoxicology an quintessential source to scientists
- Based at the bestselling Encyclopedia of Ecology
- Full-color figures and tables help the textual content and reduction in figuring out
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