Gilbertson M
International Joint Commission, 100 Ouellette Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9A 6T3.
Ecotoxicology. 2000 Dec;9(6):365-75. doi: 10.1023/a:1008967417110.
Eco-toxicology is a potentially useful fusing of the two distinct disciplines of ecology and environmental toxicology. However, in applying an ambiguous "ecosystem approach," since the late 1970s, to the implementation of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, there have been difficulties in delimiting the Great Lakes issues to be addressed under the Agreement and in ensuring that general biological resource management and conservation issues are dealt with separately under other existing mandates. There is a priority need for managers involved in the implementation of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement to decide whether the purpose remains one of maintaining and restoring Great Lakes water quality or whether it has already been transformed into a broad program to maintain and restore ecosystem integrity throughout the entire Great Lakes basin. Parts of this ambiguity may have arisen as a result of this fusing of ecology and environmental toxicology.
生态毒理学是生态学和环境毒理学这两个不同学科的一种潜在有用的融合。然而，自20世纪70年代末以来，在将模糊的“生态系统方法”应用于《五大湖水质协定》的实施过程中，在界定该协定下要解决的五大湖问题以及确保一般生物资源管理和保护问题在其他现有授权下单独处理方面存在困难。参与实施《五大湖水质协定》的管理人员迫切需要决定其目的是否仍然是维持和恢复五大湖水质，或者它是否已经转变为一个广泛的计划，以维持和恢复整个五大湖流域的生态系统完整性。这种模糊性的部分原因可能是生态学和环境毒理学的这种融合。
