Emerging and Priority Pollutants in Rivers : Bringing Science into River Management Plans - Guasch, Helena; Ginebreda, Antoni; Geiszinger, Anita; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012)
Occurrence and elimination of pharmaceuticals during conventional wastewater treatment -- Bioavailability of organic contaminants in freshwater environments -- The use of attached microbial communities to assess ecological risks of pollutants in river ecosystems -- The use of photosynthetic fluorescence parameters from autotrophic biofilms for monitoring the effect of chemicals in river ecosystems -- Consistency in diatom response to metal-contaminated environments -- Advances in the multi-biomarker approach for risk assessment in aquatic ecosystems -- How to link field observations with causality? Field and experimental approaches linking chemical pollution with ecological alterations -- Evaluating ecological integrity in multi-stressed rivers: from the currently used biotic indices to newly developed approaches using biofilms and invertebrate -- Comparing chemical and ecological status in Catalan rivers. Analysis of river quality status following the Water Framework Directive.
Keywords: Environmental chemistry; Water quality; Water pollution; Waste management; Ecotoxicology; Aquatic ecology .; Analytical chemistry; Environmental Chemistry; Water Quality/Water Pollution; Waste Management/Waste Technology; Ecotoxicology; Freshwater & Marine Ecology; Analytical Chemistry