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Overview

Valery E. Forbes is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research predominantly lies within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on several interconnected subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ecology, and Pollution.

The scientist's work encompasses a range of topics such as Species Distribution and Climate Change, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology, Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Ecosystem Dynamics and Resilience, and Gut Microbiota and Health.

Several recent papers authored or co-authored by Valery E. Forbes illustrate their research scope and publication record:

  • Mechanistic Effect Modeling of Earthworms in the Context of Pesticide Risk Assessment: Synthesis of the FORESEE Workshop, 2020, Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management
  • Validation of Freshwater Mussel Life-History Strategies: A Database and Multivariate Analysis of Freshwater Mussel Life-History Traits, 2021, Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
  • A Review of Key Features and Their Implementation in Unstructured, Structured, and Agent-Based Population Models for Ecological Risk Assessment, 2020, Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management
  • Pop-guide: Population Modeling Guidance, Use, Interpretation, and Development for Ecological Risk Assessment, 2020, Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management
  • Three Questions to Ask Before Using Model Outputs for Decision Support, 2020, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Forbes include Maxime Vaugeois, Nika Galić, Chiara Accolla, Richard A. Brain, and Amélie Schmolke.

Their publication record shows a concentration in certain scientific journals, notably Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, with seven publications, The Science of The Total Environment with six publications, as well as contributions to Ecologies, Ecological Modelling, and Peer Community In Mathematical and Computational Biology.

Best Publications

  • The use and misuse of biomarkers in ecotoxicology.

    Valery E. Forbes;Annemette Palmqvist;Lis Bach

  • Is the per capita rate of increase a good measure of population‐level effects in ecotoxicology?

    Valery E. Forbes;Peter Calow

  • Ecotoxicology in Theory and Practice

    Valery E. Forbes;Thomas Forbes

  • Species Sensitivity Distributions Revisited: A Critical Appraisal

    Valery E. Forbes;Peter Calow

  • Is hormesis an evolutionary expectation

    V. E. Forbes

  • The extrapolation problem and how population modeling can help.

    Valery E. Forbes;Peter Calow;Richard M. Sibly;Richard M. Sibly

  • Population growth rate as a basis for ecological risk assessment of toxic chemicals.

    Valery E. Forbes;Peter Calow

  • Peer Reviewed: Does Ecotoxicology Inform Ecological Risk Assessment?

    Peter Calow;Valery E. Forbes

  • Risk assessment on the basis of simplified life-history scenarios

    Peter Calow;Richard M. Sibly;Valery E Forbes

  • Development of a framework based on an ecosystem services approach for deriving specific protection goals for environmental risk assessment of pesticides

    Karin M. Nienstedt;Theo C. M. Brock;Joke van Wensem;Mark Montforts

  • Consequences of a short pulse of pesticide exposure for survival and reproduction of Gammarus pulex

    Anders Cold;Valery E Forbes

  • Are current species extrapolation models a good basis for ecological risk assessment

    Valery E. Forbes;Peter Calow;Richard M. Sibly

  • A critique of the use of distribution-based extrapolation models in ecotoxicology

    T. L. Forbes;V. E. Forbes

  • How do physiological responses to stress translate into ecological and evolutionary processes

    Peter Calow;Valery E Forbes

  • Extrapolation in Ecological Risk Assessment: Balancing Pragmatism and Precaution in Chemical Controls Legislation

    Valery E. Forbes;Peter Calow

  • When things don't add up: quantifying impacts of multiple stressors from individual metabolism to ecosystem processing.

    Nika Galic;Lauren L. Sullivan;Volker Grimm;Valery E. Forbes

  • TOXICANT IMPACTS ON DENSITY‐LIMITED POPULATIONS: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THEORY, PRACTICE, AND RESULTS

    Valery E. Forbes;Richard M. Sibly;Peter Calow

  • A Weight-of-Evidence Framework for Assessing Sediment (Or Other) Contamination: Improving Certainty in the Decision-Making Process

    G. Allen Burton;Graeme E. Batley;Peter M. Chapman;Valery E. Forbes

  • Clonal variation in life‐history traits and feeding rates in the gastropod, Potamopyrgus antipodarum: performance across a salinity gradient

    Rune Jacobsen;Valery E. Forbes

  • Genetics and ecotoxicology

    Valery E. Forbes

  • Ecological Models in Support of Regulatory Risk Assessments of Pesticides: Developing a Strategy for the Future (Short Communication)

    Valery E. Forbes;Udo Hommen;Pernille Thorbek;Fred Heimbach

Frequent Co-Authors

Volker Grimm
Volker Grimm Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Richard M. Sibly
Richard M. Sibly University of Reading
Gary Thomas Banta
Gary Thomas Banta University of Southern Denmark
Eugenia Valsami-Jones
Eugenia Valsami-Jones University of Birmingham
Michael H. Depledge
Michael H. Depledge University of Exeter
Mads C. Forchhammer
Mads C. Forchhammer University of Copenhagen
Paul J. Van den Brink
Paul J. Van den Brink Wageningen University & Research
Peter M. Chapman
Peter M. Chapman Golder Associates (Canada)
Chris J. Topping
Chris J. Topping Aarhus University
Jacob Nabe-Nielsen
Jacob Nabe-Nielsen Aarhus University

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