Marsupial and Placental Mammal Species in Environmental Risk Assessment Strategies

With the expansion of human settlements and the environmental changes brought on by human activity and pollutants toxicology and risk assessment of mammal species is becoming increasingly of interest to toxicologists involved in environmental research. This book focuses specifically on environmental risk assessment in marsupial and placental mammals. Marsupial ecotoxicology is poorly understood in scientific research and as such environmental risk assessment in marsupials is an area of rapidly growing interest. This book will be an ideal companion to toxicologists and ecologists interested in risk assessment in the environments of mammals. Particularly those with an interest in the impact introduced by human activity. The book will also be of interest to those working in conservation biology, biological invasion, biocontrol and habitat management.

General Aspects - Current and Further Perspectives; Cenozoic South American Metatherians (Mammalia, Theria) as Indicators of Climate-Environmental Changes; Didelphis virginiana (Marsupialia, Didelphimorphia): A Proposal for Its Use as Biomonitor of Environmental Pollution; An Arboreal Marsupial as an Indicator of Forest Degradation; The Physiological Ecology of the Enigmatic Colocolo Opossum, the Monito Del Monte (Genus Dromiciops) and Its Role as a Bioindicator of the Broadleaf Biome; Organochlorine Pesticides in Rivers from Riparian Cloud Forests: Prediction of Concentrations in the Fruit Bat Sturnira hondurensis; Marine Mammals as Indicators of Environmental Pollution and Potential Health Effects; Heavy Metal Impacts: An Evaluation of Toxicological Concern in Stranded Odontocetes in Southern South America; Reproductive and Teratogenic Effects of Pesticides on Great Apes (Hominidae); Epilogue and Final Remarks