Research Catalog

Title

Environmental biomonitoring : the biotechnology ecotoxicology interface / James M. Lynch and Alan Wiseman.

Author

Lynch, J. M. (James Michael)

Publication

Cambridge, [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

Wiseman, Alan

Description

xiv, 299 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Biotechnology research series ; 7

Uniform Title

Biotechnology research series 7.

Subject

• Environmental monitoring
• Bioremediation
• Environmental Monitoring
• Ecosystem
• Biotechnology

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The value of biomonitors in bioremediation strategies against ecotoxicants / J.M. Lynch and A. Wiseman -- Our environmental future : the role of science / J. Krebs -- Pollution and its ecotoxicological consequences / J.H. Koeman -- Advances in biomonitoring : sensitivity and reliability in PAH-contaminated soil / A. Wetzel -- Microbial parameters for monitoring soil pollution / C.E. Pankhurst, S.L. Rogers and V.V.S.R. Gupta -- Release of genetically-modified microorganisms and biomonitoring / F.A.A.M. De Leij [and others] -- Biomonitoring in the aqueous environment : use of cytochromes P450 and other molecular biomarkers in fish and mussels / D.R. Livingstone and P.S. Goldfarb -- Use of non-indigenous organisms for bioremediation : the promise and the concerns / R. Colwell -- Bioremediation : case studies / R.M. Atlas -- Utilisation of biocatalysts in cellulose waste minimisation / J. Woodward and B.R. Evans -- Sensors for nitrogen removal monitoring in waste-water treatment / K. Gernaey [and others] -- Nitrogen fertilizer and ecotoxicology : global distribution of environmental pollution caused by food production / H. Kawashima [and others] -- Risk perception attitudes and defence strategies associated with toxic substances : the case of lead contamination in Hungary / Z. Fuzesi, L. Tistyan and A. Vari -- Risk economics, risk assessment and legislation : methodology / B.J. Nordenstam -- Environmental biomonitoring : legal problems world-wide / S. Battersby -- Bioremediation : an economic perspective / S. Shohet -- Development of 'fail-safe strategies' to combat biohazards from environmental xenobiotics / A. Wiseman and J.M. Lynch.

ISBN

0521621410 (hardbound)

LCCN

^^^97014837^

OCLC

• 36884347
• SCSB-10219492

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library