#forensicsciencenknowledge

A scientific discipline combining the methods of ecology and toxicology in studying the effects of toxic substances and especially pollutants on the environment. Ecotoxicology is a relatively new science concerned with contaminants in the biosphere and their effects on constituents of the biosphere, including humans. Ecotoxicology is a mix of ecology, toxicology, physiology, analytical chemistry, molecular biology, and mathematics. Ecotoxicology perhaps started with the green wave in 1960s so as to reveal the effects of toxic substances in the environment. The first ecotoxicological model emerged in late 1970s and the first conference on the development of ecological models was held in 1980 in Copenhagen.