Overview

This edited volume collects population and metapopulation models for a wide variety of species, focusing on the use of models in population-level risk assessment for toxins. Each chapter of Demographic Toxicity describes the application of a population model to one species, with the aim of demonstrating how various life history characteristics of the species are incorporated into the model, how ecotoxicological impacts are modeled, and how the results of the model has been or can be used in risk assessment. The model in each chapter is implemented in RAMAS software, which uses matrix modeling of population dynamics. RAMAS software is believed to be the most powerful tool ever invented for this task.Demographic Toxicity includes a CD that contains a demo version of the program and the data files for each species. The book explains how to use these specific tools for modeling, analysis, and interpretation of data. Demographic Toxicity provides a major review of current knowledge on population dynamics in different species, representing both terrestrial and aquatic environments.

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Author:   H. Resit Akcakaya ,  John D. Stark ,  Todd S. Bridges
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.552kg
ISBN:  

9780195332964

ISBN 10:   0195332962
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   01 April 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Demographic toxicity: assessing the population-level impacts of contaminants 2: S. Jannicke Moe, Anja B. Kristoffersen, Nils Chr. Stenseth: Lucilia sericata laboratory populations: toxicant effects modified by stage-specific density dependence and stochasticity 3: Sandy Raimondo and Mace G. Barron;: Population-Level Modeling of Mercury Stress on the Florida Panther (Puma concolor coryi) Metapopulation 4: Karen F. Gaines and James M. Novak;: Raccoon (Procyon lotor) harvesting on and near the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River Site: utility of metapopulation modeling for prediction and management of hunter risk 5: Chris Klok;: Earthworms (Lumbricus rubellus) in North-western Europe: sub- lethal effects of copper on population viability 6: Steven Walters, Anne Kuhn, Matthew C. Nicholson, Jane Copeland, Steven A. Rego, Diane E. Nacci;: Stressor Impacts on Common Loons in New Hampshire, USA: A Demonstration Study for Effects of Stressors Distributed Across Space 7: W.T. Tucker, J.D. Litzgus, S. Ferson, H.R. Akcakaya, M. Thompson, D. Fort, and J. Lortie;: Population-level effects of PCBs on wood frogs (Rana sylvatica) breeding in vernal pools associated with the Housatonic River, Pittsfield to Lenoxdale, Massachusetts 8: Julann A. Spromberg and Lyndal L. Johnson;: Potential effects of freshwater and estuarine contaminant exposure on Lower Columbia River Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) populations 9: John D. Stark;: Water Flea Daphnia pulex: Population Recovery after Pesticide Exposure 10: Marie-Agnes Coutellec, Thierry Caquet and Laurent Lagadic;: Lymnaea stagnalis: the effects of experimental demographic reduction on population dynamics 11: A. Chaumot and S. Charles;: Pollution, stochasticity and spatial heterogeneity in the dynamics of an age-structured population of brown trout living in a river network 12: D.E. Nacci, S. Walters, T. Gleason, and W.R. Munns, Jr.;: Using a spatial modeling approach to explore ecological factors relevant to the persistence of an estuarine fish (Fundulus heterclitus) in a PCB-contaminated estuary 13: Annemette Palmqvist and Valery E. Forbes ;: Demographic effects of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, Fluoranthene, on two sibling species of the polychaete, Capitella capitata 14: Wayne G. Landis;: Application of population modeling to a causal analysis of the decline the Cherry Point Pacific herring (Clupea pallasi) stock 15: Niklas Hanson;: Endocrine disruption in Eelpout (Zoarces viviparus) on the Swedish Baltic coast: Population-level effects of male-biased broods 16: Todd S. Bridges, H. Resit Akcakaya, Barry Bunch;: Leptocheirus plumulosus in the upper Chesapeake Bay: sediment toxicity effects at the metapopulation level 17: R. Simonini, D. Prevedelli and M. Mauri: Applications of Life-Table Response Experiment to the evaluation of toxicants effects at population level with the polychaete Dinophilus gyrociliatus Appendix: Using RAMAS GIS

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The text is written at a level that should be accessible to biologists in general. Biologist

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H. Resit Akcakaya is a professor at Stony Brook University in New York. His current research interests include risk assessment, population viability analysis, and the effects of landscape dynamics on species persistence. One of the principal architects of the RAMAS library of software, he developed models for integrating metapopulation and landscape dynamics, and for incorporating uncertainty into IUCN criteria for threatened species.

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