Uses a risk-based approach to explain techniques for evaluating the effects of endocrine-disputing chemicals in birds, mammals, reptiles, and other wildlife. Among the aspects treated are identifying hazards, epidemiology, dose-response relationships, comparative endocrinology, mechanisms of endocrine modulation, the effect on fish of estrogenic substances in English rivers, the health of alligator populations in South Carolina, a population perspective on the contaminant effects on fish-eating birds in the Great Lakes, ...
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Uses a risk-based approach to explain techniques for evaluating the effects of endocrine-disputing chemicals in birds, mammals, reptiles, and other wildlife. Among the aspects treated are identifying hazards, epidemiology, dose-response relationships, comparative endocrinology, mechanisms of endocrine modulation, the effect on fish of estrogenic substances in English rivers, the health of alligator populations in South Carolina, a population perspective on the contaminant effects on fish-eating birds in the Great Lakes, reproductive and developmental toxicity, a weight-of-evidence perspective, extrapolating from wildlife to human effects, and research needs. Includes a glossary without pronunciation. The price is $60 for Society members. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1100grams, ISBN: 9781880611173.
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Good. 491pp, octavo, lightly shaken binding, clean and glossy boards with sharp corners, clean pages, owner's name, faint spots of soiling to top page edges.
