@inproceedings{2ec1e87f8a4043028023381e2d4a2fe0,
title = "Ecosystem risk assessment modelling method for emerging pollutants",
abstract = "Ecological models are a cost-effective tool to estimate and manage the environmental fate and ecological risk of chemicals. Therefore, the AQUATOX model not only considers the direct toxic effects of chemicals, but also contains the indirect effects of pollutants through food webs. As an example, the AQUATOX model was applied to evaluating the ecological risk of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in a highly anthropogenic disturbance lake - Baiyangdian Lake. PAHs risk-estimate results demonstrate that estimated risk for natural ecosystems cannot be fully explained by single-species toxicity data alone. The AQUATOX model could provide a good basis for ascertaining ecological protection levels of {"}chemicals of concern{"} for aquatic ecosystems. Therefore, AQUATOX can potentially be used to provide necessary information corresponding to early warning and rapid forecasting of pollutant transport and fate in the management of chemicals.",
keywords = "Ecological model, Ecological risk assessment, Emerging pollutants, Pelagic-benthic coupled food web, Population level",
author = "Lulu Zhang and Jingling Liu and Kinchung Ho",
note = "Funding Information: This study was supported by the National Water Pollution Control Major Project of China (2012ZX07203-006), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2014M550647), National Basic Research Program of China (2015CB458900), and the Croucher Foundation Visiting Scholar Program of Hong Kong (2014–2015). We need to acknowledge the prior publication of Zhang et al. (2013) in Ecological Modelling & Software, and Zhang and Liu (2014) in Environmental Pollution. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 Elsevier B.V.",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1016/B978-0-444-63536-5.00006-5",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780444635365",
series = "Developments in Environmental Modelling",
pages = "135--162",
editor = "Sven Erik and Sovan Lek and Christophe Baehr and Young-Seuk Park",
booktitle = "Advanced Modelling Techniques Studying Global Changes in Environmental Sciences, 2015",
}