ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Principles of modeling and simulation -- ch. 3. Introduction to MATLAB and Simulink -- ch. 4. Introduction to stochastic modeling -- ch. 5. Modeling ecotoxicology of individuals -- ch. 6. Modeling ecotoxicology of populations, communities, and ecosystems -- ch. 7. Parameter estimation -- ch. 8. Designing simulation experiments -- ch. 9. Analysis of simulation experiments -- ch. 10. Model validation -- ch. 11. A model to predict the effects of insecticides on avian populations -- ch. 12. Case study : predicting health risk to bottlenose dolphins from exposure to oil spill toxicants -- ch. 13. Case study : simulating the effects of temperature plumes on the uptake of mercury in Daphnia.