ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 22 docx

ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 22 docx

ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 22 docx

... heavy metals and compares statistical results based on qualitative (relat- ive abundance) or quantitative (number/m 2 ) data. Analyses based on qualitative data were generally more variable and ... microhabitats, care must be taken to estimate relative habitat availability and to express the data accordingly. 22. 4.2 S UBSAMPLING AND FIXED-COUNT SAMPLE PROCESSING The second major cost-saving...
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ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 5 docx

ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 5 docx

... cerebellum (Acquaah-Mensah et al. 2001). Acrylamide, a chemical contaminant that has been found in some foods, can cause axon damage, producing loss of coordination (ataxia) and skeletal muscle weakness (LoPachin ... or urea. Crustaceans excrete primarily ammonia via antennal glands and insects have Malpighian tubules that excrete uric acid. Both crustaceans and insects also have nephrocyte...
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ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 9 docx

ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 9 docx

... reader to understand the general advantages and disadvantages of Time-to-event data Assume model? Assume only proportional hazards or fully parametric model? No Yes Product- limit or life table analysis Cox proportional hazards analysis Not full Full Proportional hazards? Ye ... for analyzing data from concentration-lethal response tests. Many can also be applied for nonlethal effects. Each (...
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ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 11 docx

ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 11 docx

... causation or attributing relevance. Accordingly, the modified Janus context was advocated for optimal inference and organization of knowledge around paradigms at all levels of biological organization. ... aroundrigorouslytestedparadigms, and the consilience of concepts and paradigms among all hierarchical levels. The advantages of an autecological exploration of ecotoxicology were outlined in...
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ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 33 docx

ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 33 docx

... other ecologically important taxa as a result of physical and chemical stressors affect ecosystem function at local and global scales (Chapin et al. 1997). In this chapter, we consider the implications ... statistically significant. Variability in the magnitude and direction of the diversity–ecosystem function relationship among aquatic ecosystems was partially attributed to spatiotemporal...
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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 10987654321 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, holism,...
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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 ... might take an autecological vantage to managing that particular species. Another example of an autecological topic might be how the physiological tolerances of an estuarine crab relative to sali...
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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 4 pdf

ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 4 pdf

... soma, they are also relatively unavailable for trophic transfer to grazers, predators, or parasites (Nott and Nicolaiduo 1993, Wallace and Luoma 2003, Wallace et al. 2003). Let us examine details ... accumulation of metals in Littorina littorea hepato- pancreas and kidney as arising from metal ligand-binding tendencies with pyrophosphate granules in cells of the hepatopancreas and with S-rich...
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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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