1st Edition

Bioavailability Physical, Chemical, and Biological Interactions

256 Pages

by CRC Press

256 Pages

by CRC Press

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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... Read more

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