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The Pollution Biology of Aquatic Oligochaetes (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
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The Pollution Biology of Aquatic Oligochaetes (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
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In aquatic ecosystems, the oligochaetes are often a major component
of the community. Their relevance in sediment quality assessment is
largely related to their benthic and detritivorous life habit. In
this book, we aim to present the state of the art of Pollution
Biology using oligochaete worms in laboratory and field studies.
Future research will require the combination of a variety of
methodological approaches and the integration of the resulting
information, avoiding fragmented and often conflicting visions of
the relationships of the species with their environment. Current
approaches to ecotoxicology and bioaccumulation using ecological
risk assessment provide the opportunity to relate community studies
with probability of effects. This book addresses three main themes:
Ecological and Field Studies using the composition and structure of
oligochaete communities, Toxicology and Laboratory Studies, and
Bioaccumulation and Trophic Transfer Studies. Two appendices list
values of toxicological parameters (LC50, EC50) and several
bioaccumulation variables (bioaccumulation factors, biological
half-life, toxicokinetic coefficients, and critical body residues)
for different oligochaete species. Additional information is
provided on Methodological Issues and on the Taxonomy of several
oligochaete families, with information on the most recent taxonomic
debates. Each chapter includes a critical view, based on the
authors' experience, of a number of current issues which have been
raised in the literature.
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