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Environmental Bioassay Techniques and their Application

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 International Conference on Environmental Bioassay Techniques and their Application
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    Chapter 2 The scientific basis of bioassays
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    Chapter 3 Recent developments in and intercomparisons of acute and chronic bioassays and bioindicators
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    Chapter 4 The choice and implementation of environmental bioassays
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    Chapter 5 The application of bioassays in the resolution of environmental problems; past, present and future
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    Chapter 6 The application of bioassay techniques to water pollution problems — The United Kingdom experience
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    Chapter 7 The use of environmental assays for impact assessment
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    Chapter 8 Probing ecosystem health: a multi-disciplinary and multi-trophic assay strategy
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    Chapter 9 Functional bioassays utilizing zooplankton: a comparison
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    Chapter 10 A holistic approach to ecosystem health assessment using fish population characteristics
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    Chapter 11 Environmental impact assessment: the growing importance of science in government decision making
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    Chapter 12 The role of microbial metal resistance and detoxification mechanisms in environmental bioassay research
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    Chapter 13 Performances of three bacterial assays in toxicity assessment
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    Chapter 14 Luminescent bacteria toxicity assay in the study of mercury speciation
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    Chapter 15 Is the ‘microbial loop’ an early warning indicator of anthropogenic stress?
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    Chapter 16 On the accuracy and interpretation of growth curves of planktonic algae
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    Chapter 17 A bioassay using the measurement of the growth inhibition of a ciliate protozoan: Colpidium campylum Stokes
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    Chapter 18 The application of algal growth potential tests ( AGP ) to the canals and lakes of western Netherlands
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    Chapter 19 A study of phosphate limitation in Lake Maarsseveen: phosphate uptake kinetics versus bioassays
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    Chapter 20 Evidence from algal bioassays of seasonal nutrient limitations in two English lakes
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    Chapter 21 Examination of the effect of wastewater on the productivity of Lake Zürich water using indigenous phytoplankton batch culture bioassays
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    Chapter 22 Early warning assays: an overview of toxicity testing with phytoplankton in the North American Great Lake
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    Chapter 23 Continuous culture algal bioassays for organic pollutants in aquatic ecosystems
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    Chapter 24 Round Robin testing with the Selenastrum capricornutum microplate toxicity assay
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    Chapter 25 Phytoplankton recovery responses at the population and community levels in a hazard and risk assessment study
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    Chapter 26 Functional response of Fucus vesiculosus communities to tributyltin measured in an in situ continuous flow-through system
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    Chapter 27 Comparison of five bioassay techniques for assessing sediment-bound contaminants
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    Chapter 28 Assessing toxicity of Lake Diefenbaker (Saskatchewan, Canada) sediments using algal and nematode bioassays
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    Chapter 29 Fraser river sediments and waters evaluated by the battery of screening tests technique
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    Chapter 30 Bioassay responses of micro-organisms to sediment elutriates from the St. Lawrence River (Lake St. Louis)
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    Chapter 31 Metal contamination in sediments and biota of the Bay of Quinte, Lake Ontario, Canada
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    Chapter 32 Use of aquatic macrophytes as a bioassay method to assess relative toxicity, uptake kinetics and accumulated forms of trace metals
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    Chapter 33 Bioassays with a floating aquatic plant ( Lemna minor ) for effects of sprayed and dissolved glyphosate
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    Chapter 34 Phytomonitoring of pulverized fuel ash leachates by the duckweed Lemna minor
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    Chapter 35 Sensitive bioassays for determining residues of sulfonylurea herbicides in soil and their availability to crop plants
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    Chapter 36 Root and shoot elongation as an assessment of heavy metal toxicity and ‘Zn Equivalent Value’ of edible crops
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    Chapter 37 Effects of acidity on acute toxicity of aluminium-waste and aluminium-contaminated soil
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    Chapter 38 Do bioassays adequately predict ecological effects of pollutants?
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    Chapter 39 The Daphnia bioassay: a critique
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    Chapter 40 Life-tables of Daphnia obtusa (Kurz) surviving exposure to toxic concentrations of chromium
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    Chapter 41 Toxicity of the new pyrethroid insecticide, deltamethrin, to Daphnia magna
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    Chapter 42 Herbicide effects on planktonic systems of different complexity
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    Chapter 43 A new standardized sediment bioassay protocol using the amphipod Hyalella azteca (Saussure)
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    Chapter 44 The valve movement response of mussels: a tool in biological monitoring
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    Chapter 45 Physiological background for using freshwater mussels in monitoring copper and lead pollution
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    Chapter 46 The application of combined tissue residue chemistry and physiological measurements of mussels ( Mytilus edulis ) for the assessment of environmental pollution
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    Chapter 47 The biological assessment of contaminated sediments — the Detroit River example
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    Chapter 48 A method for studying the impact of polluted marine sediments on intertidal colonising organisms; tests with diesel-based drilling mud and tributyltin antifouling paint
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    Chapter 49 The effect of heavy metal speciation in sediment on bioavailability to tubificid worms
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    Chapter 50 Metal accumulation by chironomid larvae: the effects of age and body weight on metal body burdens
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    Chapter 51 A terrestrial micro-ecosystem for measuring effects of pollutants on isopod-mediated litter decomposition
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    Chapter 52 Scope for growth in Gammarus pulex , a freshwater benthic detritivore
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    Chapter 53 Feeding and nutritional considerations in aquatic toxicology
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    Chapter 54 Hypothesis formulation and testing in aquatic bioassays: a deterministic model approach
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    Chapter 55 In situ and laboratory studies on the behaviour and survival of Pacific salmon (genus Oncorhynchus )
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    Chapter 56 Analysis of fish bile with HPLC — fluorescence to determine environmental exposure to benzo(a)pyrene
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    Chapter 57 The use of sheepshead minnow ( Cyprinodon variegatus ) and a benthic copepod ( Tisbe battagliai ) in short-term tests for estimating the chronic toxicity of industrial effluents
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    Chapter 58 Preliminary investigations on the influence of suspended sediments on the bioaccumulation of two chlorobenzenes by the guppy ( Poecilia reticulata )
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    Chapter 59 Identification of developmental toxicants using the Frog Embryo Teratogenesis Assay- Xenopus (FETAX)
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    Chapter 60 Cellular and biochemical indicators assessing the quality of a marine environment
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    Chapter 61 The role and application of environmental bioassay techniques in support of the impact assessment and decision-making under the Ocean Dumping Control Act in Canada
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    Chapter 62 In situ bioassessment of dredging and disposal activities in a contaminated ecosystem: Toronto Harbour
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    Chapter 63 An improved elutriation technique for the bioassessment of sediment contaminants
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    Chapter 64 Assessing the impact of episodic pollution
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    Chapter 65 Acute toxicity of industrial and municipal effluents in the state of Maryland, USA: results from one year of toxicity testing
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    Chapter 66 Nitrification rates in the lower river Rhine as a monitor for ecological recovery
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    Chapter 67 Conditional stability constants and binding capacities for copper (II) by ultrafilterable material isolated from six surface waters of Wyoming, USA
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Title
Environmental Bioassay Techniques and their Application
Published by
Springer Netherlands, November 2013
DOI 10.1007/978-94-009-1896-2
ISBNs
978-9-40-107346-2, 978-9-40-091896-2
Editors

Munawar, M., Dixon, G., Mayfield, C. I., Reynoldson, T., Sadar, M. H.

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