Pollutant Transport and Fate in Ecosystems
Published on 1. January 2000
Book
Hardback
422 pages
978-0-632-01627-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book contains a selection of the papers presented at the meeting of the Industrial Ecology Group of the British Ecological Society, which was held at the University of Bristol, 1-4 April, 1985. The aim of the meeting was to discuss the processes and mechanisms underlying the transfer of pollutants and contaminants in ecological systems, and the book should appeal to ecologists, industrialists, general biologists and government officials specializing in the field.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
140 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 180 mm
Weight
1045 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-632-01627-3 (9780632016273)
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Persons
Content
Partial Contents: The periodic table of the elements: geochemical and biochemical mechanisms; Flushing and dispersal mechanisms in estuaries; Transfer mechanisms for dissolved pollutants in estuaries; Some factors affecting the fate of estuarine hydrocarbons and trace metals in Milford Haven, 1978-82; Facts and fallacies in wet deposition modelling; The capture of wind-driven cloud by vegetation; Transport of acidity through ecosystems; The modification of rainfall chemistry by a forest canopy; Transformations in rainwater chemistry on passing through forested ecosystems; The microbial sulphur cycle in atmospheric polluted soils.