ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 21 ppt

ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 21 ppt

ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 21 ppt

... with and without a particular species, are practical alternatives to actual manipulation and will play an important role in identifying keystone species. Well-designed studies that take advantage ... contaminants will be relatively abrupt, but that recovery along a contaminant gradient may be more gradual. Finally, natural environmental gradi- ents are often superimposed on contaminant gr...
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ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 1 pptx

ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 1 pptx

... United States of America on acid-free paper 10987654 321 International Standard Book Number-13:97 8-0 -8 49 3-3 35 7-6 (Hardcover) This book contains information obtained from authentic and highly regarded ... understand its parts and also how that level functions as part of a larger whole. This can only be done by simultaneous and thoughtful application of microexplana- tion, holis...
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ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 2 pptx

ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 2 pptx

... in adults in that particular part of the estuary. particular habitat can sustain. As an example, phosphorus might limit the standing crop of a nuisance blue-green algalspecies ina freshwaterlake ... the accumulation of a contaminant in (and occasionally also on) an individual organism. Models and associated concepts applied to toxicant bioaccumulation in individuals estab- lish the founda...
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ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 3 ppt

ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 3 ppt

... Phase I reactions (Slater 1984). As a final example, enhanced oxidative damage at high metal concentrations occurs due to hydroxyl radical formation. In such a case, more metal ion is available ... Function or purpose Associated process Metabolism (anabolism and catabolism) Translation TranscriptionExcretion, respiration, detoxification, and sequestration Maintain soma, control aging Mai...
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ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 7 ppt

ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 7 ppt

... such as lead can be excreted via the mammalian liver by an active transport mechanism (Rozman and Klaassen 1996). Abou-Donia et al. (2002) also make the generalization that a molecular weight greater ... gill ATPases. The basolateral membrane of gill cells, which have high Na + /K + -ATPase activity (Evans et al. 1999), is the site ofATPase-mediated transport of many metals such as silver i...
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ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 13 pptx

ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 13 pptx

... same population. Time-to-event data can also be analyzed with semiparametric and parametric methods. These semiparametric and fully parametric models are expressed either as proportional hazard ... cancer example, the effect of creosote contamination on ln time-to-fatal cancer might be estimated with an accelerated failure model. The median time-to-fatal cancer appearance might be 230 days .....
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ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 18 pptx

ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 18 pptx

... genetic variation (including additive-, epistatic- and dominance-associated variance), environmental variation and, perhaps, the interaction between genetic and environmental factors. • Narrow sense ... population that has adapted successfully to an environmental toxicant will not necessarily be optimally adapted for a clean habitat. (2) Natural selection leading to successful adaptation re...
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ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 20 ppt

ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 20 ppt

... Ecotoxicology: A Comprehensive Treatment Nakano, S., Miyasaka, H., and Kuhara, N., Terrestrial-aquatic linkages: Riparian arthropod inputs alter trophic cascades in a stream food web, Ecology, 80, 2435–2441, ... likely influence contaminant bioavailability, uptake, and depuration in complex and often unpredictable ways. The photoactivation of certain contaminants after exposure to UV...
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ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 23 pptx

ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 23 pptx

... comparison of beak sizes among allopatric and sympatric pop- ulations of Galapagos finches. Assuming that beak size is an appropriate surrogate for resource use, the greater separation of beak ... statisticalnull hypothesistesting paradigmhas becomeso catholicand ritualizedas toseemingly impede clear thinking and alternative analysis approaches. (Anderson et al. 2001) Statistical approaches .....
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ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 26 ppt

ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 26 ppt

... enhanced UV-B treatments for ciliates, flagellates, bacteria, and diatoms in mesocosms. The decrease in biomass of predatory ciliates resulted in an increase in biomass of flagellates and bacteria, ... characteristics. Some groups of aquatic organisms such as corals have a very narrow range of temperature tolerance and are likely to suffer significant damage as a result of moderate global wa...
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