Quantitative methods in aquatic ecotoxicology /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton :
Lewis Publishers,
[1995]
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| Series: | Advances in trace substances research.
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Table of Contents:
- Ecotoxicology as a scientific discipline
- Toxicants and ecosystems
- Toxicant effects in ecosystems
- Toxicant fate in ecosystems
- Organization of knowledge based on explanatory principles
- Toward strong inference and clear ecological relevance
- Measurement process
- Regions of quantitation
- Blank correction
- Accuracy and precision
- Variance structure
- Sample size
- Outliers
- Bioaccumulation
- Modeling bioaccumulation: general approach
- Modeling bioaccumulation: alternative approaches
- Intrinsic factors affecting bioaccumulation.
- Lethal and other quantal responses to stressors
- Dose-response at a set endpoint
- Time-to-death
- Quantifying effects of extrinsic factors
- Quantifying effects of intrinsic factors
- Toxicant mixtures
- Hypothesis tests for detection of chronic lethal and sublethal stress
- Method selection
- One-way analysis of variance
- Test of normality: Shapiro-Wilk's test
- Test for homogeneity of variances: Bartlett's test
- Treatment means compared with the control mean
- Monotomic trend: William's test
- Steel's multiple treatment-control rank sum test.
- Wilcoxon rank sum test with Bonferroni's adjustment
- Inferring biological significance from statistical significance
- Effects at the population level
- Population size
- Demography
- Spatial distribution of individuals
- Population genetics
- Effects at the community level
- Simple species interactions
- Community structure and function
- Composite indices
- Trophic exchange
- Application to ecological assessment
- Facilitating growth of the science.