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Chemicals in the Aquatic Environment

Advanced Hazard Assessment

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Lars Landner

    1. Swedish Environmental Research Group, Stockholm, Sweden

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Part of the book series: Springer Series on Environmental Management (SSEM)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXII
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  3. Special Topics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. Factors Determining the Fate of Organic Chemicals in the Environment: the Role of Bacterial Transformations and Binding to Sediments

      • Alasdair H. Neilson
      Pages 74-112

    3. Bioavailability and Uptake of Xenobiotics in Fish

      • Peter Pärt
      Pages 113-127

    4. Bioaccumulation and Biomagnification of Hydrophobic Persistent Compounds as Exemplified by Hexachlorobenzene

      • Rolf Ekelund
      Pages 128-149

    5. Fish Bile Analysis for Monitoring of Low Concentrations of Polar Xenobiotics in Water

      • Lars Förlin, Carl Axel Wachtmeister
      Pages 150-164

    6. Ecological Concepts Important for the Interpretation of Effects of Chemicals on Aquatic Systems

      • Robert C. Petersen Jr., Lena B.-M. Petersen
      Pages 165-196

    7. Selected Assays for Health Status in Natural Fish Populations

      • Carl Haux, Lars Förlin
      Pages 197-215

    8. Community Testing, Microcosm and Mesocosm Experiments: Ecotoxicological Tools with High Ecological Realism

      • Lars Landner, Hans Blanck, Ulf Heyman, Alf Lundgren, Mats Notini, Arno Rosemarin et al.
      Pages 216-254

  4. Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255
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    2. Advanced Hazard Assessment of Arsenic in the Swedish Environment

      • Hans Blanck, Kerstin Holmgren, Lars Landner, Harald Norin, Mats Notini, Arno Rosemarin et al.
      Pages 256-328

    3. Advanced Hazard Assessment of 4,5,6-Trichloroguaiacol in the Swedish Environment

      • Alasdair H. Neilson, Hans Blanck, Lars Förlin, Lars Landner, Peter Pärt, Arno Rosemarin et al.
      Pages 329-374

    4. A Tentative Hazard Assessment of Hexachlorobenzene in the Aquatic Environment

      • Carl Axel Wachtmeister, Rolf Ekelund
      Pages 375-400

  5. Conclusions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 401-401
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    2. Concluding Remarks

      • Lars Landner, Niklas Johansson, Inga-Birgitta Larsson, Erkki Leppäkoski, Alf Lundgren, Olof Svanberg et al.
      Pages 402-405

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 406-415
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About this book

Hazard assessment of a compound (xenobiotic) discharged to the aquatic environment requires data on both exposure and effects to various components of the ecosystem. The multitude of ecological gradients in the Baltic Sea is used as a background example for discussing the complexity of the issue and the need for new approaches. Therefore, this book attempts to go beyond the simplistic, standardized short-term laboratory tests traditionally used as a basis for hazard assessment of chemicals, and gives strong emphasis to the interpretation of ecotoxicological data in their real, ecological context, pointing out the need to consider the natural mortality distribution of the population under study, the role of keystone species and of species with broad ecological niches versus those with narrow, specialized niches.

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  • Swedish Environmental Research Group, Stockholm, Sweden

    Lars Landner

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