TY - BOOK AU - Landis,Wayne G. AU - Sofield,Ruth M. AU - Yu,Ming-Ho TI - Introduction to environmental toxicology: molecular substructures to ecological landscapes SN - 9781439804100 AV - QH545.A1 LAN PY - 2011/// PB - CRC Press KW - Pollution KW - Environmental toxicology N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -