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RECORD NUMBER: 8 OF 15Main Title | Fundamentals of ecotoxicology : the science of pollution / | ||||||||||||||||
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Author | Newman, Michael C. | ||||||||||||||||
Publisher | CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, | ||||||||||||||||
Year Published | 2015 | ||||||||||||||||
OCLC Number | 881386430 | ||||||||||||||||
ISBN | 9781466582293 (hardcover); 1466582294 (hardcover) | ||||||||||||||||
Subjects | Pollution--Environmental aspects ; Pollution--Health aspects | ||||||||||||||||
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Edition | Fourth edition. | ||||||||||||||||
Collation | xxv, 654 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm | ||||||||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents Notes | Introduction -- Major classes of contaminants -- Uptake, biotransformation, detoxification, elimination, and accumulation -- Factors influencing bioaccumulation -- Bioaccumulation from food and trophic transfer -- Molecular effects and biomarkers -- Cells, tissues, and organs -- Sublethal effects to individuals -- Acute and chronic lethal effects to individuals -- Effects on populations -- Effects to communities and ecosystems -- Landscape to global effects -- Risk assessment of contaminants -- Conclusions -- Appendixes: 1. International system (SI) of units prefixes -- 2. Miscellaneous conversion factors -- 3. Summary of U.S. laws and regulations -- 4. Summary of European union laws and regulations / Mark Crane and Albania Grosso -- 5. Summary of modern environmental laws and regulations of China / Taiping Wang -- 6. Regulation and management of chemicals in Australia: a 2013 update / Michael StJ. Warne -- 7. Summary of Indian environmental laws and regualtions / S. Bijoy Nandan -- 8. Regulation and management of hazardous chemical substances in South Africa / Theunis Meyer and Claudine Roos -- 9 Derivation of units for simple bioaccumulation models -- 10. Equations for the estimation of exposure. |