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Impacts of Point Polluters on Terrestrial Biota - Comparative analysis of 18 contaminated areas (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
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Impacts of Point Polluters on Terrestrial Biota - Comparative analysis of 18 contaminated areas (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
Series: Environmental Pollution, 15
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The adverse consequences of pollution impact on terrestrial
ecosystems have been under careful investigation since the
beginning of the twentieth century. Several thousand case studies
have documented the biotic effects occurring in contaminated areas.
However, after more than a century of research, ecologists are
still far from understanding the effects of pollution on biota.
Only a few generalisations have been made on the basis of extensive
monitoring programs and numerous expe- ments with industrial
contaminants. The need to reveal general patterns in the responses
of terrestrial biota to ind- trial pollution and to identify the
sources of variation in these responses became obvious more than a
decade ago. At about that time, our team initiated a quanti- tive
research synthesis of the biotic effects caused by industrial
pollution, based on 1 a meta-analysis of published data. All
meta-analyses conducted so far (covering diversity and abundance of
soil microfungi, diversity of vascular plants, diversity and
abundance of terrestrial arthropods, and plant growth and
reproduction) c- sistently showed high heterogeneity in the
responses of terrestrial biota to industrial pollution. At the same
time, they demonstrated an unexpected shortage of infor- tion
suitable for meta-analyses, as well as a considerable influence of
methodology of primary studies on the outcome of the research
syntheses. To overcome the identified problems, we designed a
comparative study, the results of which are reported in this book.
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