Sediments: Chemistry and Toxicity of In-Place Pollutants

ISBN-13: 9780367580124 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 424 str.

Renato Baudo

Opis

This important volume-the product of a meeting of a select group of scientists-provides the most recent research results from the world's leaders in the study of toxic pollutants in sediments

Spis treści

In-Place Pollutants and Diffuse Source Problems: Focus on Less Known Pollutants. Sediment Sampling Mapping and Data Analysis. Inorganic Sediment Chemistry and Elemental Speciation. Spatial and Temporal Variations in Microbial Processes in Aquatic Sediments: Implications for the Nutrient Status of Lakes. Mechanisms Controlling Fluxes of Nutrients Across the Sediment/Water Interface in a Eutrophic Lake. The Biomethylation and Cycling of Selected Metals and Metalloids in Aquatic Sediments. Biogenic Gas Production and Mobilization of In-Place Sediment Contaminants by Gas Ebullition. Bioavailability: How Sediment-Associated Organic Contaminants are Accumulated by Benthos or is Interstitial Water the Answer. Freshwater Sediment Quality Criteria: Toxicity Assessment. Pollution and Recovery of Lake Orta (N. Italy). An Operative System for Environmental Consequence Analysis for Aquatic Ecosystems. Subject Index.

O autorze

Baudo\, Renato