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The Role of Behavioral Ecotoxicology in Environmental Protection.

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Ford, AT; Ågerstrand, M; Brooks, BW; Allen, J; Bertram, MG; Brodin, T; Dang, Z; Duquesne, S; Sahm, R; Hoffmann, F; Hollert, H; Jacob, S ...
Published in: Environmental science & technology
May 2021

For decades, we have known that chemicals affect human and wildlife behavior. Moreover, due to recent technological and computational advances, scientists are now increasingly aware that a wide variety of contaminants and other environmental stressors adversely affect organismal behavior and subsequent ecological outcomes in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. There is also a groundswell of concern that regulatory ecotoxicology does not adequately consider behavior, primarily due to a lack of standardized toxicity methods. This has, in turn, led to the exclusion of many behavioral ecotoxicology studies from chemical risk assessments. To improve understanding of the challenges and opportunities for behavioral ecotoxicology within regulatory toxicology/risk assessment, a unique workshop with international representatives from the fields of behavioral ecology, ecotoxicology, regulatory (eco)toxicology, neurotoxicology, test standardization, and risk assessment resulted in the formation of consensus perspectives and recommendations, which promise to serve as a roadmap to advance interfaces among the basic and translational sciences, and regulatory practices.

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Environmental science & technology

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EISSN

1520-5851

ISSN

0013-936X

Publication Date

May 2021

Volume

55

Issue

9

Start / End Page

5620 / 5628

Related Subject Headings

  • Risk Assessment
  • Humans
  • Environmental Sciences
  • Ecotoxicology
  • Ecosystem
  • Conservation of Natural Resources
  • Animals, Wild
  • Animals
 

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Ford, A. T., Ågerstrand, M., Brooks, B. W., Allen, J., Bertram, M. G., Brodin, T., … Maack, G. (2021). The Role of Behavioral Ecotoxicology in Environmental Protection. Environmental Science & Technology, 55(9), 5620–5628. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c06493
Ford, Alex T., Marlene Ågerstrand, Bryan W. Brooks, Joel Allen, Michael G. Bertram, Tomas Brodin, ZhiChao Dang, et al. “The Role of Behavioral Ecotoxicology in Environmental Protection.Environmental Science & Technology 55, no. 9 (May 2021): 5620–28. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c06493.
Ford AT, Ågerstrand M, Brooks BW, Allen J, Bertram MG, Brodin T, et al. The Role of Behavioral Ecotoxicology in Environmental Protection. Environmental science & technology. 2021 May;55(9):5620–8.
Ford, Alex T., et al. “The Role of Behavioral Ecotoxicology in Environmental Protection.Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 55, no. 9, May 2021, pp. 5620–28. Epmc, doi:10.1021/acs.est.0c06493.
Ford AT, Ågerstrand M, Brooks BW, Allen J, Bertram MG, Brodin T, Dang Z, Duquesne S, Sahm R, Hoffmann F, Hollert H, Jacob S, Klüver N, Lazorchak JM, Ledesma M, Melvin SD, Mohr S, Padilla S, Pyle GG, Scholz S, Saaristo M, Smit E, Steevens JA, van den Berg S, Kloas W, Wong BBM, Ziegler M, Maack G. The Role of Behavioral Ecotoxicology in Environmental Protection. Environmental science & technology. 2021 May;55(9):5620–5628.
Journal cover image

Published In

Environmental science & technology

DOI

EISSN

1520-5851

ISSN

0013-936X

Publication Date

May 2021

Volume

55

Issue

9

Start / End Page

5620 / 5628

Related Subject Headings

  • Risk Assessment
  • Humans
  • Environmental Sciences
  • Ecotoxicology
  • Ecosystem
  • Conservation of Natural Resources
  • Animals, Wild
  • Animals