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@ARTICLE{Matsinos:34948,
      author       = {Matsinos, Y. G. and Wolff, W. F.},
      title        = {{A}n individual-oriented model for ecological risk
                      assessment of wading birds},
      journal      = {Ecological modelling},
      volume       = {170},
      issn         = {0304-3800},
      address      = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
      publisher    = {Elsevier Science},
      reportid     = {PreJuSER-34948},
      pages        = {471 - 478},
      year         = {2003},
      note         = {Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012},
      abstract     = {The contribution of certain contaminants to reproductive
                      failure in many avian species has been an ongoing concern.
                      Appropriate quantitative techniques have focused either on
                      the individual organisms by providing explicit
                      bioaccumulation dynamics or on whole ecosystems by looking
                      at the fate of the contaminant but fail to make the
                      necessary link via population dynamics of interacting
                      individuals. We used the individual-oriented approach in an
                      effort to quantify effects of chronic contaminant exposure
                      on individual birds. This was made possible by the use of an
                      object-oriented model, where individual birds are
                      interacting objects, and their actions are implemented by
                      passing to them appropriate messages. Using this modeling
                      approach a breeding colony of Great Blue Herons (Ardea
                      herodias) is simulated as an assemblage of interacting
                      individuals whose daily actions (foraging, growth, feeding
                      of the young) are simultaneously followed over short time
                      intervals for a nesting season. Spatial distribution of the
                      contaminants in prey resources is used on a cell by cell
                      basis and their effects on certain behavior characteristics
                      of adult birds (e.g. foraging efficiency, effects on flying
                      efficiency, parental care) are taken into account. Results
                      showed that sublethal effects could have a considerable
                      effect on colony success. Appropriate selection of endpoints
                      for risk assessment yields a variety of scenarios for colony
                      success. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.},
      keywords     = {J (WoSType)},
      cin          = {ICG-III},
      ddc          = {570},
      cid          = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB49},
      pnm          = {Chemie und Dynamik der Geo-Biosphäre},
      pid          = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK257},
      shelfmark    = {Ecology},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
      UT           = {WOS:000187461000028},
      doi          = {10.1016/S0304-3800(03)00246-1},
      url          = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/34948},
}