Handbook of Ecotoxicology
Published on 10. August 1994
Book
Hardback
920 pages
978-0-86542-849-2 (ISBN)
Description
Ecotoxicology is agining pace in both research activity and in environmental regulation and legislation. The Handbook of Ecotoxicology uniquely provides a
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
131
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Weight
2618 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-86542-849-2 (9780865428492)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
Volume One; General principles and overview; I - Freshwater systems; Microbial systems; Freshwater primary producers; Freshwater invertebrate toxicity tests; Freshwater fish; Freshwater sediments; Freshwater multispecies test systems; II - Marine and estuarine systems; Primary producers; Marine and estuarine invertebrate toxicity tests; methods for spawning, culturing and conducting toxicity tests with early life stages of estuarine and marine fishes; The appropriate uses of marine and estuarine sediment bioassays; Marine and estuarine multispecies test systems; III - Terrestrial systems; Soil invertebrates; Terrestrial primary producers; Insects, spiders and kites; Birds; Terrestrial mammals; IV - General; Biodegradation; Bioaccumulation; In situ biological monitoring of pollution in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems; Bioprobes and biosensors; The design and analysis of concentration-response experiments; Volume Two; I - Chemical categories; Gaseous compounds; metal analysis; Heavy metals; Organometallic compounds in the aquatic environment; Detergents; Pesticides; PCBs, PCDDDs and PCDFs; Oils and hydrocarbons; Organic pollution; II - General; Complex mixtures; The octanol-eater partition coefficient; Quantitative structure-activity relationships; Fate models; Glossary