Eco-SpaCE: An object-oriented, spatially explicit model to assess the risk of multiple environmental stressors on terrestrial vertebrate populations

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 3908-3917

  Loos, Mark ^a   Ragas, Ad M J ^a   Plasmeijer, Rinus ^a   Schipper, Aafke M ^a   Hendriks, A Jan ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Cumulative stress; Individual based model; Receptor oriented; Stress ecology; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM CONTAMINATION; CADMIUM TOXICITY; CUMULATIVE EXPOSURE MODEL; CUMULATIVE STRESS; ECO-TOXICOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL PROCESS; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGERS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS; FIELD DATA; FLOOD PLAINS; FLOODING STRESS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD WEBS; HABITAT VARIATION; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODELS; LIFE HISTORY; MANAGEMENT DECISIONS; NETHERLANDS; OBJECT ORIENTED; PHYSICAL STRESSORS; POPULATION DENSITIES; POPULATION SIZES; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; RECEPTOR-ORIENTED; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; RELATIVE IMPACT; RIVER RHINE; SMALL MAMMALS; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT MODELS; WILDLIFE SPECIES; WOOD MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FORECASTING; POPULATION STATISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION;

CADMIUM;

BIOINDICATOR; CADMIUM; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FLOODING; FOOD WEB; HABITAT TYPE; LIFE HISTORY; MORTALITY; POLLUTION EFFECT; POPULATION ECOLOGY; PREDATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; STARVATION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; VERTEBRATE;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL SPATIALLY EXPLICIT CUMULATIVE EXPOSURE MODEL; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FLOODING; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD WEB; HABITAT; LIFE HISTORY; MOLE (INSECTIVORA); MORTALITY; MOUSE; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; OWL; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER; STARVATION; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; CADMIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FLOODS; FOOD CHAIN; MICE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STARVATION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRIGIFORMES; VERTEBRATES;

NETHERLANDS; RHINE RIVER;

ATHENE NOCTUA; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS ARVALIS; TALPA EUROPAEA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77955057791     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.11.045     Document Type: Article

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