Amphibian Species in Environmental Risk Assessment Strategies

Marcelo L Larramendy, Guillermo Eli Liwszyc

• Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781837671526
• eBook ISBN:
  9781837672011
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Ecology

With the expansion of human settlements and the environmental changes brought about by human activity and pollutants, toxicology and risk assessment of amphibian species has become increasingly of interest to toxicologists involved in environmental research.

This book focuses specifically on environmental risk assessment in premetamorphic stages and adults of amphibians. Amphibian ecotoxicology is not totally understood in scientific research and as such environmental risk assessment in these vertebrates is an area of rapidly growing interest. It has the potential to answer some of the questions regarding risks to our environment.

An ideal companion, this book will be useful to toxicologists and ecologists investigating risk assessment in the environments of amphibians, while also of interest to those working in conservation biology, biological invasion, biocontrol and habitat management.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Series editors
• Title
• Copyright
• Preface
• Contents
• Chapter 1 General Aspects – Current and Further Perspectives
• Chapter 2 Considerations of Amphibian Models and Testing Paradigms for Ecological Risk Assessment
• Chapter 3 Risk Assessment Studies in Amphibians: The Case of Nanoparticles in the Aquatic Medium
• Chapter 4 Evaluation of Genotoxicity and Mutagenicity in Amphibian Species that Inhabit Agroecosystem Environments
• Chapter 5 Ecotoxicity and Risk Assessment Characterization of Veterinary Pharmaceuticals on Anuran Amphibian Larvae
• Chapter 6 Adult African Toads as Bioindicators of Environmental Xenobiotic-induced DNA Damage and Systemic Toxicity Provide Insight into the Decline of Amphibian Populations
• Chapter 7 Development of Massive Molecular Biomarker Analysis (“Biomarkomics”) in Non-model Species: The Transcriptome of Rhinella arenarum (Anura, Bufonidae) Larvae Exposed to Organophosphorus Pesticides as a Case Example
• Chapter 8 Genotoxic Risk of Solar Ultraviolet Radiation in Amphibians
• Chapter 9 Mortality Induced by Mixtures of Pesticides in Tadpoles from the Pampas Region of Argentina
• Chapter 10 The Direct-developing Frog Eleutherodactylus johnstonei: A Promising but Underused Amphibian Model for Ecological Risk Assessment
• Chapter 11 Morphological Responses as a New Tool to Evaluate the Effects of Agrochemicals and Other Emerging Contaminants in Neotropical Frogs
• Chapter 12 Genotoxic, Biochemical and Physiological Biomarkers Triggered by Agrochemicals in Neotropical Anuran Species
• Chapter 13 Amphibian Species as Experimental Models in Environmental Risk Assessment Studies – Epilogue and Final Remarks
• Subject Index