Glenn W. Suter

TL;DR: Suter et al. as discussed by the authors defined the field of ecological risk assessment and proposed a set of assessment concepts, including exposure, organism level effects, population level effects and ecosystem level effects.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of the use of SDPs in the estimation of ecological risk in the field of aquatic life sciences, focusing on the importance of the SDP concept for predicting field effects.

TL;DR: The argument that it is a mistake for environmental scientists to treat this metaphor of ecosystem health as reality is presented, which fails because it misrepresents both ecology and health science.

TL;DR: The Ecosystem Valuation Forum was organized as a dialogue because it has been clear from the outset that agreement even on the meaning of the term "ecosystem valuation" could not be taken for granted as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an approach for regional risk assessment that combines regional assessment methods and landscape ecology theory with an existing framework for ecological risk assessment, which evaluates the effects of an environmental change on a valued natural resource and interprets the significance of those effects in light of the uncertainties identified in each component of the assessment process.