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Ecotoxicology is the study of the effects of toxic chemicals on biological organisms, especially at the population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere levels. Ecotoxicology is a multidisciplinary field , which integrates toxicology and ecology .
Ecotoxicity, the subject of study in the field of ecotoxicology (a portmanteau of ecology and toxicology), refers to the biological, chemical or physical stressors that affect ecosystems. Such stressors can occur in the natural environment at densities, concentrations, or levels high enough to disrupt natural biochemical and physiological ...
[1] [2] Ecotoxicology is a subdiscipline of environmental toxicology concerned with studying the harmful effects of toxicants at the population and ecosystem levels. Rachel Carson is considered the mother of environmental toxicology, as she made it a distinct field within toxicology in 1962 with the publication of her book Silent Spring , which ...
A toxicologist working in a lab (United States, 2008)Toxicology is a scientific discipline, overlapping with biology, chemistry, pharmacology, and medicine, that involves the study of the adverse effects of chemical substances on living organisms [1] and the practice of diagnosing and treating exposures to toxins and toxicants.
René Truhaut (May 23, 1909 – May 10, 1994) was a French toxicologist. He was made chairman of the department of toxicology at the Paris Faculty of Medicine.He is known for having introduced the concept of daily intake in 1956, and for coining the term "ecotoxicology" (in 1969) which defined it as "the branch of toxicology concerned with the study of toxic effects, caused by natural or ...
Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety is an open-access peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier. The editors-in-chief are Richard Handy ( University of Plymouth ) and Bing Yan ( Guangzhou University ).
Researchers took samples of human brains from dead people to look for microplastics. The brain samples had higher levels of plastic than kidney or liver samples. People who died in 2024 had more ...
ecotoxicology The study of the ecological role of toxic chemicals (often pollutants, but also naturally occurring compounds). ecozone An area that has characteristics of natural origin such as climate, terrain, vegetation, etc. It may used as a synonym for biogeographic realm. El Niño