Demographic Toxicity Methods in Ecological Risk Assessment (with CD-ROM)

by Akcakaya, H. Resit; Stark, John D.; Bridges, Todd S.

• ISBN13: 9780195332964
• ISBN10: 0195332962
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 ofdemonstrating 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 matrixmodeling 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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Contributing Authors	p. vii
Demographic Toxicity: Assessing the Population-Level Impacts of Contaminants	p. 3
Lucilia sericata Laboratory Populations: Toxicant Effects Modified by Stage-Specific Density Dependence and Stochasticity	p. 20
Population-Level Modeling of Mercury Stress in the Florida Panther (Puma concolor coryi) Metapopulation	p. 40
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	p. 54
Earthworms (Lumbricus rubellus) in Northwestern Europe: Sublethal Effects of Copper on Population Viability	p. 68
Stressor Impacts on Common Loons in New Hampshire, USA: A Demonstration Study for Effects of Stressors Distributed across Space	p. 80
Population-Level Effects of PCBs on Wood Frogs (Rana sylvatica) Breeding in Vernal Pools Associated with the Housatonic River, Pittsfield to Lenoxdale, Massachusetts	p. 97
Potential Effects of Freshwater and Estuarine Contaminant Exposure on Lower Columbia River Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Populations	p. 123
Water Flea Daphnia pulex: Population Recovery after Pesticide Exposure	p. 143
Lymnaea stagnalis: The Effects of Experimental Demographic Reduction on Population Dynamics	p. 152
Pollution, Stochasticity, and Spatial Heterogeneity in the Dynamics of an Age-Structured Population of Brown Trout Living in a River Network	p. 168
Using a Spatial Modeling Approach to Explore Ecological Factors Relevant to the Persistence of an Estuarine Fish (Fundulus heteroclitus) in a PCB-Contaminated Estuary	p. 184
Demographic Effects of the Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Fluoranthene on Two Sibling Species of the Polychaete Capitella capitata	p. 200
Application of Population Modeling to a Causal Analysis of the Decline in the Cherry Point Pacific Herring (Clupea pallasi) Stock	p. 213
Endocrine Disruption in Eelpout (Zoarces viviparus) on the Swedish Baltic Coast: Population-Level Effects of Male-Biased Broods	p. 229
Leptocheirus plumulosus in the Upper Chesapeake Bay: Sediment Toxicity Effects at the Metapopulation Level	p. 242
Applications of Life Table Response Experiments to the Evaluation of Toxicant Effects at the Population Level with the Polychaete Dinophilus gyrociliatus	p. 225
Appendix: Using RAMAS GIS	p. 263
Index	p. 267
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