1st Edition

Bioavailability Physical, Chemical, and Biological Interactions

    256 Pages
    by CRC Press

    Practical and provocative, Bioavailability reviews prevalent understanding of the physical-chemical-biological mechanisms that control the bioavailability of both organic and inorganic contaminants in aquatic environments.

  • Discusses the complex issues that surround many regulatory issues
  • Emphasizes the need to identify and control that portion of the total concentration that is biologically available and can cause adverse effects, i.e., "active"
  • Examines the influence of dynamic factors, such as pH, alkalinity, and light on these mechanisms
  • Addresses the subject of speciation for both organic and inorganic contaminants
  • Session 1. Introduction

    Jerry L. Hamelink, Peter F. Landrum, Harold L. Bergman, William H. Benson

    Session 2. Water Chemistry

    Physicochemical Factors Affecting Toxicity in Freshwater: Hardness, pH, and Temperature

    Foster L. (Sonny) Mayer, Jr., Leif L. Marking, Terry D. Bills, and George E. Howe

    Chemical and Biological Factors Affecting Bioavailability of Contaminants in Seawater

    John P. Knezovich

    Synopsis of Discussion Session on Physicochemical Factors Affecting Toxicity

    Russell Erickson (Chair), Terry D. Bills, James R. Clark, David Hansen, John P. Knezovich, Foster L. Mayer, and Anne E. McElroy

    Session 3. Inorganic Toxicants

    Ligands and the Bioavailability of Metals in Aquatic Environments

    Michael C. Newman and Charles H. Jagoe

    Synopsis of Discussion Session on the Bioavailability of Inorganic Contaminants

    William H. Benson (Chair), James J. Alberts, Herbert E. Allen, Carlton D. Hunt, and Michael C. Newman

    Session 4. Interactions of Organic Pollutants with Inorganic Solid Phases: Are They Important to Bioavailability?

    Anne Spacie

    Interactions of Organic Chemicals with Particulate and Dissolved Organic Matter in the Aquatic Environment

    Frank A.P.C. Gobas and Xin Zhang

    Synopsis of Discussion Session: Influences of Particulate and Dissolved Material on the Bioavailability of Organic Compounds

    I. H. (Mel) Suffet (Chair), Lisa L. Williams, Chad T. Jafvert, Jussi Kukkonen, Mark R. Servos, Anne Spacie, and James A. Noblet

    Session 5. Dynamic Environmental Factors

    Photochemical Aspects of Bioavailability

    Donald G. Crosby

    Effects of Redox Processes on Acid-Producing Potential and Metal Mobility in Sediments

    Jihua Hong, Ulrich Förstner, and Wolfgang Calmano

    Sediment-Water Exchange Processes

    Bjorn Sundby

    Synopsis of Discussion Session: The Effects of Variable Redox Potentials, pH, and Light on Bioavailability in Dynamic Water-Sediment Environments

    Joseph S. Meyer (Chair), William Davison, Bjorn Sundby, James T. Oris, Darrel J. Laurén, Ulrich Förstner, Jihua Hong, and Donald G. Crosby

    Session 6. Kinetic Limitations or Dissolution

    Unraveling the Choreography of Containment Kinetics: Approaches to the Quantifying the Uptake of Chemicals by Organisms

    Donald Mackay

    Physiological and Biochemical Mechanisms that Regulate the Accumulation and Toxicity of Environmental Chemicals in Fish

    James M. McKim

    Synopsis of Discussion Session on the Kinetics Behind Environmental Bioavailability

    Peter F. Landrum (Chair), William L. Hayton, Henry Lee II, Lynn S. McCarty, Donald Mackay, and James M. McKim

    Session 7. Closing Remarks

    Summary and Conclusions

    Kenneth L. Dickson (chair), John P, Giesy, Rodney Parrish, and Lee Wolfe

    Index

    Biography

    Jerry Hamelink, Peter F. Landrum, Harold Bergman, William H. Benson