Selenium Assessment in Aquatic Ecosystems
A Guide for Hazard Evaluation and Water Quality Criteria
Published on 21. March 2002
Book
Hardback
XIII, 162 pages
978-0-387-95346-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a practical handbook for everyone dealing with selenium in aquatic environments. It offers field-tested approaches and methods for assessment and water quality management. Using his twenty- year experience, the author discusses the effects of selenium on fish and bird populations and presents guidelines for interpreting selenium concentrations, assessing hazards, setting water quality criteria and implementing monitoring practices. Selenium Assessment in Aquatic Ecosystems will interest field scientists, natural resource managers, risk assessors and environmental planners.
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Series
Edition
2002 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XIII, 162 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
442 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-387-95346-5 (9780387953465)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4613-0073-1
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A. Dennis Lemly
Selenium Assessment in Aquatic Ecosystems
A Guide for Hazard Evaluation and Water Quality Criteria
Book
09/2012
Springer
€106.99
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Content
Section I. Selenium Sources, Concentrations, and Biological Effects.- 1. Selenium Pollution Around the World.- 2. Interpreting Selenium Concentrations.- 3. Toxic Effects of Selenium in Fish.- Section II. Techniques for Evaluating Hazard.- 4. Protocol for Aquatic Hazard Assessment.- 5. Teratogenic Deformity Index for Fish.- Section III. Applying Hazard Evaluation to Water Quality Criteria.- 6. Hydrological Units and Selenium Criteria.- 7. Developing Site-Specific Water Quality Criteria.- 8. Setting Ecosystem Loading Limits.- Section IV. Outlook for the Future.- 9. Emerging Selenium Contamination Issues.- Index Section I.