Developing a field of landscape ecotoxicology

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dc.contributor.authorCairns, John Jr.en
dc.contributor.authorNiederlehner, Barbara R.en
dc.contributor.departmentBiological Sciencesen
dc.date.accessed2014-03-11en
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-27T13:06:09Zen
dc.date.available2014-03-27T13:06:09Zen
dc.date.issued1996-08en
dc.description.abstractSince toxicants are spread over ecological landscapes, it seems likely that they have effects at that level of ecological organization. Landscape ecotoxicology examines the effects of toxic chemicals on larger scales than traditional environmental toxicology. This approach is characterized by the use of endpoints appropriate to the spatial scale across which a toxicant is dispersed, attention to interactions between physical and temporal patterns and the process of ecological impairment, and integration of multiple lines of evidence for toxicity at various scales. In addition, landscape ecotoxicology seeks predictive models in order to influence human actions before environmental damage occurs. Integrating information from damaged systems, toxicity tests, simulation models, and biomonitoring of healthy systems provides the best basis for decisions. Rapid progress in landscape ecotoxicology is expected as scientists incorporate tools, such as remote sensing and spatially explicit simulation models, and then calibrate these models using data from longterm biomonitoring of large areas. Further integration into combined socio-economic-ecological models is also possible.en
dc.identifier.citationJohn Cairns Jr. and B. R. Niederlehner 1996. Developing a Field of Landscape Ecotoxicology. Ecological Applications 6:790-796. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2269484en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.2307/2269484en
dc.identifier.issn1051-0761en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/46858en
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.jstor.org/stable/2269484en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherEcological Society of Americaen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectcumulative impacten
dc.subjectecotoxicologyen
dc.subjectendpointsen
dc.subjectlandscape patternen
dc.subjectscaleen
dc.subjecteffectsen
dc.subjectstressed ecosystemsen
dc.subjecttoxic stressen
dc.subjectecological risk assessmenten
dc.subjectregional scaleen
dc.subjectpollutionen
dc.subjectforesten
dc.subjectperspectiveen
dc.subjectdepositionen
dc.subjectsmelteren
dc.subjectmodelsen
dc.titleDeveloping a field of landscape ecotoxicologyen
dc.title.serialEcological Applicationsen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden

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