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Table of Contents:

• Expert Commentary
• Nano(Eco)Toxicology - Giving the Matter Some Thought / Ana Picado, Elsa Mendonca, Paulo Partidario and Joaquina Barrulas
• Short Communications
• Ecotoxicology: Life History Data and Population Models / John E. Banks and John D. Stark
• Use of Body Mass Scaling of Dose in Ecological Risk Assessments / Loren D. Knopper, Graham K. Smith, Christopher A. Ollson and Malcolm Stephenson
• Assessment of Pulse Effects of Herbicides with Different Modes of Action on Algae / Nathalie Vallotton and Nathalie Chevre
• Environmental Pollution Impact on Soil Quality / A. A. Adeniyi
• A Preliminary Evaluation of Xenobiotic Embryo Toxicity Testing with Soil Annelids / Stephanie L. Chin, Sophie Than, Flora Siao and Timothy J. Smith
• Research and Review Chapters
• Ch. 1. Genetic Ecotoxicology / Jessica K. Leet and Sean M. Richards
• Ch. 2. Host Plants, Fitness and Developmental Instability in a Guild of Cactophilic Species of the Genus Drosophila / Esteban Hasson, Ignacio M. Soto, Valeria P. Carreira, Cristian Corio, Eduardo M. Soto and Maria IL Betti
• Ch. 3. Biomarkers of Pollution as Tools for Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) / Lya Neuberger-Cywiak, Rosa Reyes Gil and Danisa Cruz Castejon
• Ch. 4. Modelling Lead Accumulation in the Gaspe Peninsula Forest Soils (Quebec, Canada) / J. C. Aznar, M. Rieber-Lafleche, D. Cluis and M. Bordeleau
• Ch. 5. In Vitro Zsi-Nitzschia closterium Interactions: Partition, Toxicity, Bioaccumulation and Biological Concentration Factors / P. Pedrosa, C. S. Karez and W. C. Pfeiffer
• Ch. 6. In Situ and Laboratory Bioassays with Nereis Virens to Assess the Toxicity of HCB in the Zeehavenkanaal (The Netherlands) / Belinda J. Kater, Andre Hannewijk, Marco Dubbeldam and Jaap F. Postma
• Ch. 7. Antioxidant Response of Fanned Oncorhynchus Mykiss Affected by Proliferative Kidney Disease (PKD) / Elia Antonia Concetta, Dorr Ambrosius Josef Martin, Zippilli Lorenza and Prearo Marino
• Ch. 8. Application of the Sediment Quality Triad to Rivers in Northern Spain / Z. Maestre, P. Rodriguez and M. Martinez-Madrid
• Ch. 9. Role of Chronic Toxicity Evaluation of Effluents in River Basin Management - Case Study / Elsa Mendonca, Ana Picado and Isabel Moura
• Ch. 10. Advances in Amphibian and Reptile Ecotoxicological Research / Manuel E. Ortiz-Santaliestra
• Ch. 11. The Biological Role of Cyclic Hepatotoxic and Non-Hepatotoxic Cyanopeptides and its Ecological Consequences / Bojan Sedmak, Assaf Sukenik, Tina Elersek and Gorazd Kosi

• Ch. 12. Detoxifying Enzymes of Dreissena Polymorpha Treated with Disinfectants, Chlorine Dioxide, Sodium Hypochlorite and Peracetic Acid, for Superficial Water Potabilization / Dorr Ambrosius Josef Martin and Elia Antonia Concetta.

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Contributors:

Santos, Eduardo B.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Environmental toxicology

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xiv, 340 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm

Call Numbers:

RA1226 .E26 2009

ISBNs:

9781606921678 (hardcover)
1606921673 (hardcover)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2008037248

OCLC Numbers:

244596090