Multiple Stresses in Ecosystems

by Joseph J. Cech Jr.

Ecotoxicology is the evaluation of toxic effects within the environment, typically within one specific ecosystem, like a forest, stream, or lake. For years now, ecotoxicological studies have tended to focus on one toxicant at a time. But that isn't how an ecosystem encounters toxicants (or stresses): there may be several elements at work in the air, several more in the water, and still more already within the soil of any given ecosystem, and all...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566703093
• ISBN13: 9781566703093
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.5"