Latin America is one of the most diverse but also vulnerable
regions in the world that is under continuous anthropogenic
pressure due to increasing urban, industrial and agricultural
developments. Although there are many research groups studying the
impacts caused by those pressures, the results and conclusions
obtained by many of them are largely unknown because their studies
are mostly published at the local or regional scale. Ecotoxicology
in Latin America represents an effort to collect and share research
performed in Latin America in the area of ecotoxicology and
environmental risk assessment, presenting a collection of relevant
and innovative studies focused on the following topics: (i)
Contaminant entrance, transportation, distribution and fate; (ii)
Environmental risk in freshwater ecosystems; (iii) Ecological risk
in coastal zones; (iv) Biomonitoring programs: water, sediment and
air; (v) Physiological effects and biomarkers; (vi) Soil
ecotoxicology; (vii) Bioaccumulation and human risk; (viii)
Toxicity of emerging contaminants; and (ix) Frontiers in
Ecotoxicology. This selection of topics aims at covering the most
important subjects and applications of ecotoxicology, including
classical and novel subjects. Therefore, this book contains
chapters related to different environmental compartments prone to
contamination (water, sediment, soil and air), to different
contamination sources (agriculture, industry, urban discharges and
natural emissions), and to multiple biological responses at
different organizational levels (individual to ecosystems,
including human beings). It is envisioned to have an international
projection within and beyond Latin American countries, as it is a
great opportunity to increase the networks not only among Latin
American research teams working on similar subjects, but also with
teams from other regions. The idea of this book was to favour the
connection among groups to quickly improve the development of
methods and their application in ecotoxicological and environmental
risk studies in Latin America. This book will be useful to
important sectors of environmental sciences and related areas, and
to specific target demographics such as students and researchers
acting in environmental studies, and decision-makers (i.e.,
politicians and environmental organizations). Ecotoxicology in
Latin America presents 34 chapters authored by 111 researchers from
12 Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia,
Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, and
Venezuela) and from 6 non-Latin American countries (Austria,
Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and USA).
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