Wildlife Ecotoxicology: Forensic Approaches (Hardcover)

Introduction.- Ethics in science and regulation of environmental chemicals.- Update: DDT, bird populations, chemical regulation, California coast.- Dieldrin, poisoning and population decline of British birds of prey.- The Rocky Mountain Arsenal: Contamination and enduring impacts on wildlife.- North American Great Lakes: Contaminant impacts on birds, regulations.- Dioxins, pulp and paper, fish-eating birds on the Pacific coast of Canada.- Getting the lead out: Dead ducks, eagles and the hunting community.- Mercury and impacts on bird populations.- Insecticides, scavenging birds and regulations in the Fraser River Delta.- Death on the Pampas: Grasshoppers, methamidofos and hawks.- Atrazine and amphibians.- Arsenic and old trees: pine beetles, wood peckers in British Columbia.- Diclofenac: Sacred cows and vulture culture.- Glyphosate and frog societies: Can they coexist?- Biotoxins, invasive species, birds and degraded ecosystems.