ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 26 ppt

... suggests a global cause. In particular, populations of Norway Spruce (Picea abies) in the Bavarian Alps and red spruce (Picea rubens) in eastern North America and Canada have been significantly impacted. Ollinger ... variety of plants and animals have shown effects of UV-B at all levels of biological organization. • Because phytoplankton are a major component of marine food webs in Antarct...

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... 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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... 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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... 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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... 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 ... phosphate and arsenate, Mar. Chem., 14, 259 265 , 1984. Newman, M.C. and Jagoe, C.H., Ligands and the bioavailability of metals in aquatic environments, In Bioavail- ability. Physical,Chemi...

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... hazard of a reference group or type is used as a baseline hazard and the hazard of another group is scaled (made proportional) to that baseline hazard. For example, the hazard of contracting a ... 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 earlier than that of the reference population. Bot...

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... genetic variation (including additive-, epistatic- and dominance-associated variance), environmental variation and, perhaps, the interaction between genetic and environmental factors. • Narrow sense ... But a remarkable three of the eight isozyme loci (isocitrate dehydrogenase-1, Icd-1; malate dehydrogenase-1, Mdh-1; and glucosephosphate isomerase-2, Gpi-2 = Pgi-2) had statistically signific...

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... 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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... 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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... 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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