Damian Preziosi and Robert Pastorok, Ph.D., have coauthored “Ecological Food Web Analysis for Chemical Risk Assessment,” published in the peer-reviewed journal, Science of the Total Environment. Please click here to access the abstract or order the full article.
The article identifies issues in constructing and modeling food webs and shows that greater incorporation of food web analysis can improve the ecological risk assessment process. It also stresses the importance of distinguishing among different web types and in considering the functional context of trophic relationships among key ecological receptors and their prey.
Preziosi, D.V., R.A. Pastorok. 2008. Ecological food web analysis for chemical risk assessment, Sci Total Environ. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.06.063.