Human Evolutionary Demography

• Author(s): Oskar Burger, Ronald Lee, Rebecca Sear

• Categories: Social Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2024-06-14
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• Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Human evolutionary demography is an emerging field blending natural science with social science. This edited volume provides a much-needed, interdisciplinary introduction to the field and highlights cutting-edge research for interested readers and researchers in demography, the evolutionary behavioural sciences, biology, and related disciplines. By bridging the boundaries between social and biological sciences, the volume stresses the importance of a unified understanding of both in order to grasp past and current demographic patterns. Demographic traits, and traits related to demographic outcomes, including fertility and mortality rates, marriage, parental care, menopause, and cooperative b...

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

• Categories: Environmental chemistry

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2006
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Demographic Toxicity

• Author(s): H. Resit Akcakaya, John D. Stark, Todd S. Bridges

• Categories: Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2008-04-25
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• Publisher: Oxford University Press

This edited volume collects population and metapopulation models for a wide variety of species, focusing on the use of models in population-level risk assessment for toxins. Each chapter of Demographic Toxicity describes the application of a population model to one species, with the aim of demonstrating how various life history characteristics of the species are incorporated into the model, how ecotoxicological impacts are modeled, and how the results of the model has been or can be used in risk assessment. The model in each chapter is implemented in RAMAS software, which uses matrix modeling of population dynamics. RAMAS software is believed to be the most powerful tool ever invented for this task.Demographic Toxicity includes a CD that contains a demo version of the program and the data files for each species. The book explains how to use these specific tools for modeling, analysis, and interpretation of data. Demographic Toxicity provides a major review of current knowledge on population dynamics in different species, representing both terrestrial and aquatic environments.

Species Sensitivity Distributions in Ecotoxicology

• Author(s): Leo Posthuma, Glenn W. Suter II, Theo P. Traas

• Categories: Mathematics

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2001-12-20
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• Publisher: CRC Press

In spite of the growing importance of Species Sensitivity Distribution models (SSDs) in ecological risk assessments, the conceptual basis, strengths, and weaknesses of using them have not been comprehensively reviewed. This book fills that need. Written by a panel of international experts, Species Sensitivity Distributions in Ecotoxicology reviews

Quantitative Ecotoxicology, Second Edition

• Author(s): Michael C. Newman

• Categories: Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2012-08-29
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• Publisher: CRC Press

Quantitative Ecotoxicology, Second Edition explores models and methods of quantitative ecotoxicology at progressively higher biological scales using worked examples and common software packages. It complements the author’s previous books, Fundamentals of Ecotoxicology, Third Edition and Ecotoxicology: A Comprehensive Treatment. Encouraging a more rigorous inferential approach to research, the book examines the quantitative features of the science of ecotoxicology. The first chapters lay the foundation by introducing fundamental concepts and definitions. The author traces the historical perspective, rationale, and characteristics of scientific ecotoxicology as well as the general measuremen...