Animal Biomarkers as Pollution Indicators (1992)Hardcover - 1992, 31 December 1991

Animal Biomarkers as Pollution Indicators (1992)
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Part of Series
Chapman & Hall Ecotoxicology
Part of Series
Natural History Museum Publications
Print Length
291 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Springer
Date Published
31 Dec 1991
ISBN-10
0412402009
ISBN-13
9780412402005

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Ecotoxicology is a relatively new scientific discipline. Indeed, it might be argued that it is only during the last 5-10 years that it has come to merit being regarded as a true science, rather than a collection of procedures for protecting the environment through management and monitoring of pollutant discharges into the environment. The term 'ecotoxicology' was first coined in the late sixties by Prof. Truhaut, a toxicologist who had the vision to recognize the importance of investigating the fate and effects of chemicals in ecosystems. At that time, ecotoxicology was considered a sub-discipline of medical toxicology. Subsequently, several attempts have been made to portray ecotoxicology in a more realistic light. Notably, both F. Moriarty (1988) and F. Ramade (1987) emphasized in their books the broad basis of ecotoxicology, encompassing chemical and radiation effects on all components of ecosystems. In doing so, they and others have shifted concern from direct chemical toxicity to man, to the far more subtle effects that pollutant chemicals exert on natural biota. Such effects potentially threaten the existence of all life on Earth. Although I have identified the sixties as the era when ecotoxicology was first conceived as a coherent subject area, it is important to acknowledge that studies that would now be regarded as ecotoxicological are much older. Wherever people's ingenuity has led them to change the face of nature significantly, it has not escaped them that a number of biological con- sequences, often unfavourable, ensue.

Product Details

Book Edition:
1992
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
31 December 1991
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.6 x 1.91 cm
Genre:
Ecology
ISBN-10:
0412402009
ISBN-13:
9780412402005
Language:
English
Location:
Dordrecht
Pages:
291
Publisher:
Springer
Weight:
625.96 gm

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