| Preface |
vi |
| Acknowledgments |
vii |
| Forward |
viii |
| List of figures |
xii |
| List of tables |
xiv |
| Acronyms |
xvi |
| Workshop participants |
xxii |
| Contributing authors |
xxiv |
| |
| Chapter 1: A risk-based
field and laboratory approach to assess
endocrine disruption in wildlife |
1 |
| |
| Chapter 2: Hazard
identification and epidemiology |
17 |
| |
| Chapter 3: Role
of exposure assessment in characterizing
risks of endocrine-disrupting substances
to wildlife |
39 |
| |
| Chapter 4: Dose-response
relationships |
69 |
| |
| Chapter 5: Comparative
endocrinology and mechanisms of endocrine
modulation in fish and wildlife |
97 |
| |
| Chapter 6: Xenobiotic
modulation of endocrine function in
birds |
121 |
| |
| Chapter 7: Contaminant
effects on Great Lakes fish-eating birds:
a population perspective |
141 |
| |
| Chapter 8: Xenobiotic
modulation of endocrine function in
fishes |
155 |
| |
| Chapter 9: Effects
on fish of estrogenic substances in
English rivers |
239 |
| |
| Chapter 10: A
comparison of bleached kraft mill effluent,
17ß-estradiol, and ß-sitosterol effects
on reproductive function in fish |
249 |
| |
| Chapter 11: Effects
of endocrine-disrupting contaminants
in reptiles: alligators |
267 |
| |
| Chapter 12: Effects
of estrogenic compounds in reptiles:
turtles |
291 |
| |
| Chapter 13: The
health of alligator populations in South
Carolina |
301 |
| |
| Chapter 14: Reproductive
and developmental toxicity of endocrine-disrupting
chemicals: steroid and non-steroid mechanisms
using rodent models |
311 |
| |
| Chapter 15: Endocrine
disruptors: extrapolation from wildlife
to human effects |
335 |
| |
| Chapter 16: Endocrine
disruptors in wildlife: a weight-of-evidence
perspective |
349 |
| |
| Chapter 17: Fish
and wildlife species as sentinels of
environmental endocrine disruptors |
369 |
| |
| Chapter 18: Uncertainties
in the risk assessment of endocrine-modulating
substances in wildlife |
431 |
| |
| Chapter 19: Research
needs |
449 |
| |
| Glossary |
457 |
| Index |
467 |
| |
| Chapter 7: Contaminant
effects on Great Lakes fish-eating birds:
a population perspective |
141 |
| |
| Chapter 8: Xenobiotic
modulation of endocrine function in
fishes |
155 |
| |
| Chapter 9: Effects
on fish of estrogenic substances in
English rivers |
239 |
| |
| Chapter 10: A
comparison of bleached kraft mill effluent,
17ß-estradiol, and ß-sitosterol effects
on reproductive function in fish |
249 |
| |
| Chapter 11: Effects
of endocrine-disrupting contaminants
in reptiles: alligators |
267 |
| |
| Chapter 12: Effects
of estrogenic compounds in reptiles:
turtles |
291 |
| |
| Chapter 13: The
health of alligator populations in South
Carolina |
301 |
| |
| Chapter 14: Reproductive
and developmental toxicity of endocrine-disrupting
chemicals: steroid and non-steroid mechanisms
using rodent models |
311 |
| |
| Chapter 15: Endocrine
disruptors: extrapolation from wildlife
to human effects |
335 |
| |
| Chapter 16: Endocrine
disruptors in wildlife: a weight-of-evidence
perspective |
349 |
| |
| Chapter 17: Fish
and wildlife species as sentinels of
environmental endocrine disruptors |
369 |
| |
| Chapter 18: Uncertainties
in the risk assessment of endocrine-modulating
substances in wildlife |
431 |
| |
| Chapter 19: Research
needs |
449 |
| |
| Glossary |
457 |
| Index |
467 |
