Consequences of Individual-Level Alterations on Population Dynamics and Community Structure and Function

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Consequences of Individual-Level Alterations on Population Dynamics and Community Structure and Function

ABSTRACT

The ecotoxicological effects induced by the introduction of a pollutant in an ecosystem may appear at various levels of biological organization, from populations and communities up to the ecosystem itself (Fig. 1).