It is often difficult to determine how toxic a trace metal is, for that this book focuses on metals importance, toxicity effect and monitoring study. It characterizes natural and anthropogenic sources of pollutants, identifies physical, chemical and biological conditions that affect their ecosystem mobility. This book describes the pathways by which potentially toxic metals can access and concentrate to toxic levels in organisms. The text reviews the various environmental assessments, monitoring of samples and electroanalytical techniques used to determine how sample types bond the metals and...