ABSTRACT
The development of the book Wildlife Toxicology: Emerging Contaminant and Biodiversity Issues intends to build on the earlier successful book Wildlife Toxicology and Population Modeling: Integrated Studies of Agroecosystems (Kendall and Lacher 1994), which was widely distributed and used around the world. Since our first wildlife toxicology book was so successful, we were contacted by the publisher to develop a second edition; however, the current book has really evolved into a new work in itself, since we needed to address emerging contaminant as well as biodiversity issues. Although the field of wildlife toxicology has grown dramatically over the past quarter century (Kendall 1982) and many outstanding scientists are contributing to the development of the database on the response of wildlife to environmental contaminant exposures, things are really now more complex than ever, hence the reason for the expanded editorship to develop the book Wildlife Toxicology: Emerging Contaminant and Biodiversity Issues. Of particular interest has been the role of global climate change and atmospheric contaminants, impacts on biodiversity from a local to a global perspective, emerging diseases, agricultural trends and biofuels, and the widespread use of munitions and explosives for military-related activities and consequences of release into the environment. Therefore, the goal of this book
1.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................1 1.2 Some Perspectives ............................................................................................2 1.3 What Is Wildlife Toxicology? ...........................................................................2 1.4 Wildlife Toxicology — The Early Days ...........................................................4 1.5 Wildlife Toxicology — The Movement Forward .............................................5
