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Ecotoxicology is an emerging field of study that attempts to combine ecological and toxicological principles so that more realistic estimates of environmental damage by xenobiotics can be made. However, ecotoxicology is dominated by toxicology, and calls to ‘put the ecology into ecotoxicology’ have been virtually ignored (Baird et al., 1996).
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Stark, J.D., Banken, J.A.O., Walthall, W.K. (1998). The importance of the population perspective for the evaluation of side-effects of pesticides on beneficial species. In: Haskell, P.T., McEwen, P. (eds) Ecotoxicology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5791-3_37
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