Emerging and Priority Pollutants in Rivers : Bringing Science into River Management Plans /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Guasch, Helena. (Editor), Ginebreda, Antoni. (Editor), Geiszinger, Anita. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
Edition:1st ed. 2012.
Series:The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, 19
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.