Bioindicators & Biomonitors: Principles, Concepts, and ApplicationsB.A. Markert, A.M. Breure, H.G. Zechmeister This book provides comprehensive single source coverage of bioindication/biomonitoring in the fields of ecology, ecotoxicology and environmental sciences; from the ecological basics to the effects of chemicals on the environment and the latest test strategies.
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Contents
List of contributors vii | xiii |
Definitions strategies and principles for bioindicationbiomonitoring | xx |
Frank H McCormick Ph D US Environmental Protection Agency Office | xx |
Bioindicators and environmental stress assessment | 41 |
Dr Christian Mulder Laboratory for Ecological Risk Assessment National | 56 |
Bioindicators and biomonitors for policy legislation | 85 |
Bioindicators for ecosystem management with special reference | 123 |
Predicting toxic effects of contaminants in ecosystems using | 153 |
Oligochaeta | 555 |
Molluscs as bioindicators | 577 |
Fish as bioindicators | 639 |
Univ Prof Dr Harald G Zechmeister University of Vienna Institute of Ecology | 660 |
Biomonitoring with birds | 677 |
Prof Dr Peter H Becker Institut für Vogelforschung Vogelwarte Helgoland | 734 |
Mammals as biomonitors | 737 |
Barbara S Brown US Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research | 753 |
Biomarkers | 203 |
Ecotoxicity testing | 221 |
Microbial indicators | 259 |
Algae as ecological bioindicators | 285 |
Univ Prof Dr Martin Dokulil Institute for Limnology Austrian Academy | 312 |
Dr Monika HammersWirtz RWTH Aachen Lehrstuhl für Biologie V Aachen | 326 |
Bryophytes | 329 |
lichens and metal air pollution | 377 |
Dr Borut Smodiš Section for Nutritional and HealthRelated Environmental | 414 |
The use of higher plants as bioindicators | 423 |
Nematodes | 529 |
Environmental specimen banking | 775 |
developing agribiodiversity | 797 |
USEPA biomonitoring and bioindicator concepts needed to evaluate | 831 |
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IAEA approaches to assessment of chemical elements | 875 |
Univ Prof Dr Bernd Markert Internationales Hochschulinstitut Zittau Zittau | 885 |
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Bioindicators and the indicator approach of the European | 903 |
Critical assessment of international marine monitoring programmes | 917 |
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abiotic abundance accumulation activity agricultural air pollution algae algal analysis approach aquatic assemblages atmospheric benthic bioaccumulation bioassays biodiversity bioindicators Bioindicators and biomonitors biological biomarkers biomass biomonitoring birds bryophytes cell changes chemical communities compounds concentrations contamination Daphnia deposition detected distribution diversity earthworm ecological ecosystem Ecotoxicology effects effluents elements emissions environment environmental eutrophication evaluation exposure factors field fish forest freshwater function Garty genetic growth habitat heavy metals Hedw impact increase indicators integrity invertebrates investigations Kierdorf laboratory lakes levels lichen marine Markert measures metabolism methods microbial molluscs moss mussels natural nematode nutrient OECD oligochaetes organisms parameters PCBs pesticides physiological phytoplankton plant species population potential processes reproduction response risk assessment river roe deer samples seabirds sediment sensitive soil stress structure studies substances techniques terrestrial tion tissues toxicity tests Toxicology trophic uptake values variables vegetation Wadden Sea water quality xenobiotics Zechmeister
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Practical Environmental Analysis Miroslav Radojevic,Vladimir Nikolaevich Bashkin Limited preview - 2006 |