
Bioassays
Advanced Methods and Applications
Description
Key Features
- Features chapters written by internationally renowned researchers in the field, all actively involved in the development and application of bioassays
- Gives the reader an understanding of the advantages and deficiencies of available tests
- Addresses the problem of understanding the impact of toxins in an aquatic environment and how to assess them
Readership
Advanced students and researchers in ecology, aquatic sciences, environmental technology and water management as well as workers and administrators in the field of waste water treatment, environmental health, drinking water supply and natural ecosystems
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Chemical analysis
3. Short view on the historical development
4. Regulations, political and societal aspects, toxicity limits
5. Technology of image analysis for bioassays
6. Algae
7. Other commercially available bioassays
8. Plant Pigments
9. PAM fluorescence
10. Ecotox
11. Daphniatox
12. Imaging based bioassays (Lemnatox)
13. Fish
14. Mammals
15. Insects worms etc.
16. Plant and animal cells
17. Environmental Monitoring
18. Use of bioassays to monitor toxicity and pollution in drinking water
19. Application of bioassays for polluted freshwater ecosystems
20. Bioassays to determine solar UV radiation
21. Terrestrial
22. Marine toxicology: assays and perspectives for developing countries
23. Conclusion
Product details
- No. of pages: 464
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2017
- Published: October 19, 2017
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128118610
- eBook ISBN: 9780128118900