Science Inventory

The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) convened a Pellston workshop in 2022 to examine how information on climate change could be better incorporated into the ecological risk assessment (ERA) process for chemicals as well as other environmental stressors. A...

An understanding of the combined effects of climate change (CC) and other anthropogenic stressors, such as chemical exposures, is essential for improving ecological risk assessments of vulnerable ecosystems. In the Great Barrier Reef, coral reefs are under increasingly severe dur...

A key question in understanding the implications of climate change is how to integrate ecological risk assessments that focus on contaminants with the environmental alterations from climate predictions. This report summarizes the results of integrating climate change with the use...

Wildfires have increased in frequency and area burned, trends expected to continue with climate change. Among other effects, fires release pollutants into the atmosphere, representing a risk to human health and downwind terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. While human health risks...

We present a Northern European case study from the SETAC Pellston workshop in June 2022 on integration of global climate change (GCC) modeling into ecological risk assessment. In Northern Europe, GCC is expected to result in increased temperatures and precipitation. The changes i...

The problem formulation stage of an ecological risk assessment defines the scope of the analysis by delineating the ecosystems at risk, the characteristics of the stressors, the assessment and measurement endpoints, the exposure pathways between the stressor source and endpoints,...

Problem formulation (PF) is a critical initial step in planning risk assessments for chemical exposures to wildlife, used either explicitly or implicitly in various jurisdictions to include registration of new pesticides, evaluation of new and existing chemicals released to the e...

Amphibian populations are threatened by multiple potential stressors, including environmental variability and climate-related changes in habitat availability. A contributing factor in changing ecosystems is the availability of breeding habitat for anuran amphibians that are depen...

Amphibian populations are threatened by multiple potential stressors, including environmental variability and climate-related changes in habitat availability.  Ecological risk assessment of amphibians ideally should encompass the appropriate spatial and temporal scale to ade...

Estimating ecological risks from climate change requires knowledge of the exposure to multiple stressors along with the susceptibility of the ecological resources to these stressors. Uncertainty and variability are essential components for calculating risks in future conditions. ...

This chapter aims to introduce the reader to the basic principles of environmental risk assessment of chemicals and highlights the usefulness of tiered approaches within weight of evidence approaches in relation to problem formulation i.e., data availability, time and resource av...

Wildfire risks and losses have increased over the last 100 years, associated with population expansion, land use and management practices, and global climate change. While there have been extensive efforts at modeling the probability and severity of wildfires, there have been few...

Wildfire risks and losses have increased over the last 100 years, associated with population expansion, land use and management practices, and global climate change, with more than 30% of the global land surface experiencing significant fire frequency. While there have been exten...