“…Several investigations were made to study the effect of pollutant on the survival of biological species (Austin, ; Davis, Newell, & Quinn, ; Dubey & Hussain, ; Kime, ; Mee & Bloxham, ; Mercaldo‐Allen, Kuropat, Greig, & Sennefelder, ; Shukla, Sharma, Dubey, & Sinha, ; Sindermann, ). Dubey and Hussain () studied survival of species dependent on a resource in a polluted environment. Hallam and De Luna () and De Luna and Hallam () discussed the important role played by pollutant uptaken by the resource.…”