Coastal and Estuarine Risk Assessment (Environmental and Ecological Risk Assessment)

Front Cover......Page 1
Preface......Page 6
The Editors......Page 8
Contributors......Page 12
Table of Contents......Page 16
1.  Overview of Ecological Risk Assessment in Coastal and Estuarine Environments......Page 18
2.  European Approaches to Coastal and Estuarine Risk Assessment......Page 32
3.  Emerging Contaminants of Concern in Coastal and Estuarine Environments......Page 58
4.  Enhancing Belief during Causality Assessments: Cognitive Idols or Bayes’s Theorem?......Page 90
5.  Bioavailability, Biotransformation, and Fate of Organic Contaminants in Estuarine Animals......Page 114
6.  The Bioaccumulation of Mercury, Methy lmercury, and Other Toxic Elements into Pelagic and Benthic Organisms......Page 144
7.  Dietary Metals Exposure and Toxicity to Aquatic Organisms: Implications for Ecological Risk Assessment......Page 168
8.  Endocrine Disruption in Fishes and Invertebrates: Issues for Saltwater Ecological Risk Assessment......Page 206
9.  The Use of Toxicity Reference Values (TRVs) to Assess the Risks That Persistent Organochlorines Pose to Marine Mammals......Page 234
10.  Effects of Chronic Stress on Wildlife Populations: A Population Modeling Approach and Case Study......Page 264
11.  Structuring Population-Based Ecological Risk Assessments in a Dynamic Landscape......Page 290
12.  Incremental Chemical Risks and Damages in Urban Estuaries: Spatial and Historical Ecosystem Analysis......Page 314
13.  Ecological Risk Assessment in Coastal and Estuarine Environments......Page 344
Index......Page 354