Introduction to environmental toxicology : molecular substructures to ecological landscapes / created by Wayne G. Landis, Ruth M. Sofield and Ming-Ho Yu

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction to environmental toxicology
Frameworks and paradigms for environmental toxicology
An introduction to toxicity testing
Survey and review of typical toxicity test methods
The fate and transport of contaminants
Uptake and modes of action
Factors modifying the activity of toxicants
Inorganic gaseous pollutants
Fluoride as a contaminant of developing economies
Heavy metals
Biotransformation, detoxification, and biodegradation
Ecological effects from biomarkers to populations
Ecological effects : community to landscape scales of toxicological impacts
Ecological risk assessment

After fifteen years and three editions, Introduction to Environmental Toxicology: Molecular Substructures to Ecological Landscapes has become a standard that defines the field of environmental toxicology, and the fourth edition is no exception. The authors take an integrated approach to environmental toxicology that emphasizes scale and context as important factors in understanding effects and management options. This edition benefits from the insight of a new author, Dr. Ruth M. Sofield, who prepared the new chapter on the fate and transport of contaminants. The relationship between structure and toxicological properties has been a major theme of this book since its inception and this new chapter expands this fundamental concept to include fate and transport. In the early chapters the use of models in science is discussed and this theme carries throughout the rest of the book