Practical considerations for the incorporation of insect-mediated contaminant flux into ecological risk assessments

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Abstract

Insect-mediated contaminant flux is truly an interdisciplinary concept that merges ideas from many technical areas of science (e.g., environmental chemistry, landscape ecology, and entomology). This chapter introduces risk assessors to this emerging and ecologically relevant concept by distilling the main mechanisms that drive insect-mediated contaminant flux and integrating them together so that more informed decisions can be made on whether the phenomenon presents a potential risk at a site.

Publication type Book chapter
Publication Subtype Book Chapter
Title Practical considerations for the incorporation of insect-mediated contaminant flux into ecological risk assessments
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-49480-3_9
Year Published 2020
Language English
Publisher Springer
Contributing office(s) Columbia Environmental Research Center
Description 17 p.
Larger Work Type Book
Larger Work Subtype Monograph
Larger Work Title Contaminants and ecological subsidies
First page 179
Last page 195
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