Fundamentals of Aquatic Toxicology: Effects, Environmental Fate, and Risk Assessment

ISBN-13: 9781560320913 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 1148 str.

Rand;Rand Gary M; Rand M. Rand

Opis

This text is divided into three parts. The first part describes basic toxicological concepts and methodologies used in aquatic toxicity testing, including the philosophies underlying testing strategies now required to meet and support regulatory standards.
The second part of the book discusses various factors that affect transport, transformation, ultimate distribution, and accumulation of chemicals in the aquatic environment, along with the use of modelling to predict fate.; The final section of the book reviews types of effects or endpoints evaluated in field studies and the use of structure-activity relationships in aquatic toxicology to predict biological activity and physio-chemical properties of a chemical. This section also contains an extensive background of environmental legislation in the USA and within the European Community, and an introduction to hazard/risk assessment with case studies.

Spis treści

Introduction to Aquatic Toxicology, Part I Effectw-Toxicity Testing, Part II Environmental Fate, Part III Assessment, Exposure/Efffects, Environmental Legislation and Hazard/Risk.

O autorze

Gary M. Rand Ph .D (Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA) (Edited by)