Birds and Persistent Organic Pollutants: Exposure, Effects, and Risk Assessment

Synthesizing up-to-date findings from multiple continents and disciplines, Birds and Persistent Organic Pollutants fills a critical gap in ecotoxicology, providing the first comprehensive volume dedicated solely to birds and persistent organic pollutants (POPs). POPs continue to pose a significant and long-term threat to ecological systems worldwide, with birds serving as some of the most informative indicators of environmental contamination.This book examines how these chemicals move through ecosystems, accumulate in avian species, and influence physiological processes, population dynamics, and conservation outcomes.Spanning a diversity of habitats-from Arctic marine systems to agricultural landscapes in the tropics-it provides a global perspective on how POPs interact with avian ecology under both historical and emerging contaminant scenarios. Integrating mechanistic, ecological, and applied perspectives, the chapters collectively explore real-world exposure pathways, species-specifi