Modeling the Fate and Effect of the Toxic Substances in the Environment

S Jorgensen

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780444423863
• eBook ISBN:
  9780444601599
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Ecology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Modeling the Fate and Effect of the Toxic Substances in the Environment contains the proceedings of a Symposium on "Modeling the Fate and Effect of Toxic Substances in the Environment", held on June 6-10, 1983 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and sponsored by the International Society for Ecological Modeling. The symposium provided a forum for discussing the state of the art in modeling the fate and effect of toxic substances in the environment. Topics include parameter estimation, theoretical considerations, and models of a wide variety of toxic compounds in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Comprised of 16 chapters, this volume begins with an account of parameter estimation in toxic substance models, followed by a discussion on extinction and persistence in models of population-toxicant interactions. The reader is then introduced to PATHWAY, a simulation model of the transport of radionuclides through agroecosystems. Subsequent chapters focus on possible cause-effect relationships in the dying of Germany's spruce-fir forests; application of risk and uncertainty analysis techniques to a heavy metal speciation model; the biological effects of toxicants in aquatic microcosm systems; and the dispersal and biological effect of toxins in the Tamar estuary in England. The book concludes with a description of a nonlinear mathematical model for the transport and spreading of oil slicks. This book will be useful to students, practitioners, and researchers in the field of inorganic chemistry, as well as those who are interested in the environmental effects of toxic compounds.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Modelling the Fate and Effect of Toxic Substances in the Environment
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Parameter estimation in toxic substance models
• Chapter 2. Extinction and persistence in models of population-toxicant interactions
• Chapter 3. Validation of Pathway, a simulation model of the transport of radionuclides through agroecosystems
• Chapter 4. Dramatic development in the dying of German spruce-fir forests: in search of possible cause-effect relationships
• Chapter 5. Hazard assessment - a summary of analysis and integrated evaluation of exposure and potential effects from toxic environmental chemicals
• Chapter 6. A non-equilibrium approach to modeling toxic metal speciation in acid, aquatic systems
• Chapter 7. Application of risk and uncertainty analysis techniques to a heavy metal speciation model
• Chapter 8. The Fates of Aromatics Model (FOAM): description, application, and analysis
• Chapter 9. Simulating the biological effects of toxicants in aquatic microcosm systems
• Chapter 10. Modeling transport processes and differential accumulation of persistent toxic organic substances in groundwater systems
• Chapter 11. Physio-chemical and ecological modeling the fate of toxic substances in natural water systems
• Chapter 12. Modelling concepts for hydrophobic pollutants in lakes
• Chapter 13. Error analysis and simulation of Mirex behaviour in Lake Ontario
• Chapter 14. A preliminary model of the dispersal and biological effect of toxins in the Tamar estuary, England
• Chapter 15. Modeling heavy metals transport in an arctic fjord system polluted from mine tailings
• Chapter 16. A non-linear mathematical model for the transport and spreading of oil slicks
• Author Index