424 Pages
by
CRC Press
424 Pages
by
CRC Press
424 Pages
by
CRC Press
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This important volume-the product of a meeting of a select group of scientists-provides the most recent research results from the world's leaders in the study of toxic pollutants in sediments. It gives practical information on measuring and mapping distributions of concentrations of pollutants and their toxic effects in sediments. Also covered are the use and relative advantages and disadvantages... Read more
In-Place Pollutants and Diffuse Source Problems: Focus on Less Known Pollutants. Sediment Sampling Mapping and Data Analysis. Inorganic Sediment Chemistry and Elemental Speciation. Spatial and Temporal Variations in Microbial Processes in Aquatic Sediments: Implications for the Nutrient Status of Lakes. Mechanisms Controlling Fluxes of Nutrients Across the Sediment/Water Interface in a Eutrophic Lake. The Biomethylation and Cycling of Selected Metals and Metalloids in Aquatic Sediments. Biogenic Gas Production and Mobilization of In-Place Sediment Contaminants by Gas Ebullition. Bioavailability: How Sediment-Associated Organic Contaminants are Accumulated by Benthos or is Interstitial Water the Answer. Freshwater Sediment Quality Criteria: Toxicity Assessment. Pollution and Recovery of Lake Orta (N. Italy). An Operative System for Environmental Consequence Analysis for Aquatic Ecosystems. Subject Index.
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