Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-105) and index.

Executive summary : Recommendations for assessing the risks of herbicides and plant growth regulators to aquatic macrophytes -- Ch. 1. Introduction and background -- Ch. 2. Guidance, recommendations, and proposed decision scheme for additional aquatic macrophyte tests -- Ch. 3. Regulatory issues concerning effects of pesticides on aquatic macrophytes -- Ch. 4. Characterizing and assessing risk using case studies -- Ch. 5. Reports of workgroups and follow-up investigations -- Ch. 6. Keynote presentations -- Appendix I : AMRAP case studies -- Appendix II : List of workshop participants, workgroup members -- Appendix III : List of AMRAP workshop sponsors -- Appendix IV : Glossary of terms. "An integration of regulatory and research information from key specialists in the area of environmental regulation, Aquatic Macrophyte Risk Assessment for Pesticides provides a state-of-the-art guide to ecotoxicological risk assessment. Written by well-known experts in the field of aquatic risk assessment, this book is a practical reference for the assessment of the risk of pesticides with herbicidal activity to aquatic macrophytes."--Jacket.