Ecological Risk Modeling
- Need to expand ecorisk assessments to entire ecosystem
- Almost all assessments based on individual level endpoints
- Insufficient except for individual endangered species assessments
- Need to model dynamic food webs
- Multiple species
- Seasonal dynamics
- Spatial dynamics - connect to foraging area
- Need to recognize limitations of BSAF
- Best for benthic organisms (clear connection between sediment and organism)
- Cannot simply average large body of data, correlation analysis required
- Recognize spatial and temporal influences
- Need to develop better links between contaminant modeling and ecological dynamics and effects