Community ecotoxicology is defined as the study of the effects of contaminants on patterns
of species abundance, diversity, community composition, and species interactions. Recent …

Pollution-free stream water and sediments are crucial to support healthy stream flora and
fauna, but urban surface runoff impairs water quality and leaves a legacy of pollution in the …

The development of field sampling designs that employ multiple reference and polluted sites
has been proposed as an alternative to the traditional upstream vs. downstream approach …

A unique presentation that unifies the field, this book brings together concepts and
information about contaminant effects at all levels of the biological hierarchy. Beginning at …

In January 2017, the International Seabed Authority released a discussion paper on the
development of Environmental Regulations for deep-sea mining (DSM) within the Area …

Routine biomonitoring studies that compare abundance of benthic macroinvertebrates
upstream and downstream from contaminant discharges generally cannot be used to …

We investigated longitudinal variation (eg, from upstream to downstream) in diatom
community composition in an unpolluted stream (the Cache la Poudre River, Colorado …

Context dependency refers to variation in ecological patterns and processes across
environmental or spatiotemporal gradients. Research on context dependency in basic …

We analysed the benthic macroinvertebrate species composition, taxonomic richness (as
expected richness for 100 individuals), total abundance and biomass at 117 stream sites in …

Predicting responses of benthic communities to contaminants requires an understanding of
both direct and indirect effects. I examined the influence of previous exposure to heavy …