Table of Contents

Preface.

1 The Ecotoxicology Concept: Introduction.

2 Sources, Types and Properties of Ecotoxicants.

3 Distribution and Transformation of Chemicals in the Environment.

4 Molecular, Biochemical, Physiological and Behavioural Responses.of Organisms.

5 Effects on Population, Community and Ecosystem.

6 Dose and Concentration: Response Relationships.

7 Biomarkers and Biomonitoring of Hazards in the Environment.

8 Ecological Risk Assessment.

9 Ecotoxicology and Management of Chemicals.

Index.

About the Author

DES W. CONNELL is a Reader at Griffith University's School of Australian Environmental Studies in Queensland. He has served as a Visiting Professor at the State University of New York's Marine Sciences Research Center in Stony Brook. His professional experience includes positions as Director of the Gippsland Lakes Environmental Study for the Victorian Ministry of Conservation and Marine Studies Coordinator for the VMC's Westernport Bay Environmental Study. He is a member of the Water Quality Council of Queensland, the Australian Environmental Council's Chemicals Review Subcommittee, and a former member of the Great Barrier Reef Consultative Committee. His other books include Water Pollution: Causes and Effects in Australia and New Zealand and Experiments in Environmental Chemistry. In 1964 Dr. Connell received a Commonwealth Postgraduate Award and, later, the Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology Research Award. He received his PhD in chemistry from the University of Queensland.