DEVELOPING INTEGRAL PROJECTION MODELS FOR ECOTOXICOLOGY.

ABSTRACT: In many ecosystems, especially aquatic ecosystems, size plays a critical role in the factors that determine an individual's ability to survive and reproduce. In aquatic ecotoxicology, size informs both realized and potential acute and chronic effects of chemical exposure. This paper demonstrates how chemical and nonchemical effects on growth, survival, and reproduction can be linked to population-level dynamics using size-structured integral projection models (IPM). The modeling approach was developed with the goals and constraints of ecological risk assessors in mind, who are tasked with estimating the effects of chemical exposures to wildlife populations in a data-limited environment. The included case study is a collection of daily time-step IPMs parameterized for the life history and a

SUBMITTER: Pollesch NL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10581395 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature