Aquatic ecotoxicology: advancing tools for dealing with emerging risks

Aquatic Ecotoxicology: Advancing Tools for Dealing with Emerging Risks presents a thorough look at recent advances in aquatic ecotoxicology and their application in assessing the risk of well-known and emerging environmental contaminants. This essential reference, brought together by leading experts in the field, guides users through existing and novel approaches to environmental risk assessment, then presenting recent advances in the field of ecotoxicology, including omics-based technologies, biomarkers, and reference species. The book then demonstrates how these advances can be used to design and perform assays to discover the toxicological endpoints of emerging risks within the aquatic environment, such as nanomaterials, personal care products, PFOS and chemical mixtures. The text is an invaluable reference for any scientist who studies the effects of contaminants on organisms that live within aquatic environments. Provides the latest perspectives on emerging toxic risks to aquatic environments, such as nanomaterials, pharmaceuticals, chemical mixtures, and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS)Offers practical guidance on recent advances to help in choosing the most appropriate toxicological assayPresents case studies and information on a variety of reference species to help put the ecotoxicological theory into practical risk assess INDICE: IntroductionConventional Risk AssessmentRetrospective Assessment and Environmental MonitoringHow to Improve Exposure AssessmentFrom Incorporation to ToxicityFrom Microcosms to Mesocosms and FieldIndividual BiomarkersOmicsReference SpeciesEndobenthic Invertebrates as Reference SpeciesFilter-feeding Bivalves as Reference Species in the Water ColumnGammarids as Reference Species in FreshwaterCopepods as Reference Species in Estuarine and Marine WatersFish as Reference Species in Different Water MassesBiological Responses at Supra-individual LevelsEcotoxicological Risk of Endocrine DisruptorsEcotoxicological Risk of Personal Care Products and PharmaceuticalsEcotoxicological Risk of NanomaterialsEcotoxicological Risk of MixturesGeneral Conclusions

• ISBN: 978-0-12-800949-9
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 518
• Fecha Publicación: 24/08/2015
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés