Ecological Toxicity Testing: Scale, Complexity, and Relevance

John Cairns, Jr. Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

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Cat. #: L599 ISBN: 0873715993 Publication Date: 12/27/1994 Number of Pages: 240

Ecological Toxicity Testing provides a critical comparison of toxicity tests at different levels of biological organization from cells to landscapes. While ecological toxicity tests can be designed at any of the many levels of complexity and on spatial scales ranging from square millimeters to square kilometers, the uses to which this information can be put often differs with scale. In the past decade, tests at all levels have been refined and subjected to critical evaluations of their predictive accuracy.

This text/reference includes evaluations of toxicity test systems at various scales and complexities by expert practitioners. It also offers broader analyses of the effects of scale on endpoint selection, test design and analyses, and chemical sensitivity.

• Focuses on the issues of inherent characteristics of test scale and their consequences for extrapolations to natural systems
• Offers in-depth discussions of toxic effects
• Reviews test design and scale considerations in research
• Contributors are expert research investigators in the field of ecotoxicology