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Integration of ecosystem science into radioecology: A consensus perspective
- Source :
- Science of the Total Environment, Science of the Total Environment, Elsevier, 2020, 740, pp.140031. ⟨10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140031⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2020.
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Abstract
- International audience; In the Fall of 2016 a workshop was held which brought together over 50 scientists from the ecological and radio- logical fields to discuss feasibility and challenges of reintegrating ecosystem science into radioecology. There is a growing desire to incorporate attributes of ecosystem science into radiological risk assessment and radioecological research more generally, fueled by recent advances in quantification of emergent ecosystem at- tributes and the desire to accurately reflect impacts of radiological stressors upon ecosystem function. This paper is a synthesis of the discussions and consensus of the workshop participant's responses to three primary questions, which were: 1) How can ecosystem science support radiological risk assessment? 2) What ecosystem level endpoints potentially could be used for radiological risk assessment? and 3) What inference strategies and associated methods would be most appropriate to assess the effects of radionuclides on ecosystem structure and function? The consensus of the participants was that ecosystem science can and should support radiological risk assessment through the incorporation of quantitative metrics that reflect ecosystem functions which are sensi- tive to radiological contaminants. The participants also agreed that many such endpoints exit or are thought to exit and while many are used in ecological risk assessment currently, additional data need to be collected that link the causal mechanisms of radiological exposure to these endpoints. Finally, the participants agreed that ra- diological risk assessments must be designed and informed by rigorous statistical frameworks capable of reveal- ing the causal inference tying radiological exposure to the endpoints selected for measurement.
- Subjects :
- Ecosystem health
medicine.medical_specialty
Environmental Engineering
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Ecosystem ecology Ecosystem health Ecotoxicology Radioecology Radionuclides Risk assessment
Inference
010501 environmental sciences
15. Life on land
16. Peace & justice
01 natural sciences
Pollution
Radioecology
13. Climate action
Radiological weapon
Causal inference
medicine
Environmental Chemistry
Ecosystem
[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology
Ecosystem ecology
Risk assessment
Psychology
Waste Management and Disposal
Environmental planning
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00489697 and 18791026
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Science of the Total Environment, Science of the Total Environment, Elsevier, 2020, 740, pp.140031. ⟨10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140031⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7e04cb0b50300625bcec56e3781acd8f