Pharmaceuticals in marine and coastal environments : occurrence, effects and challenges in a changing world /: occurrence, effects and challenges in a changing world. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Juan Carlos Duran-Alvarez, Blanca Jiménez-Cisneros.
• Editors: Duran-Alvarez, Juan Carlos; Jiménez-Cisneros, Blanca
• Contents: 1. Point and diffuse sources of pharmaceuticals in coastal zones; 2. Occurrence spatiotemporal distribution and environmental fate of pharmaceutical residues in urban estuaries; 3. Pharmaceutical active compounds in marine and coastal environments of arid and semi-arid countries in the Arab Region; 4. Occurrence and distribution of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance determinants in coastal environments; 5. Occurrence and environmental fate of pharmaceuticals, personal care products and illicit drugs (PPCPIDs) in tropical ecosystems; 6. Environmental risk assessment of pharmaceutical and personal care products in estuarine and coastal waters; 7. New sampling methods for detecting pharmaceutical residues in seawater and sediments; 8. Present and future challenges in the multiresidue determination of pharmaceuticals in marine samples; 9. Analytical strategies to detect and quantify pharmaceutical residues in marine biota; 10. Sources and occurrence of pharmaceutical residues in offshore seawater; 11. Occurrence of pharmaceutical residues in marine sediments; 12. Pharmaceuticals residues in the pristine Antarctic ecosystem ; 13. On the search of a suitable indicator of pharmaceutical pollution in marine environments; 14. Effective biomarkers to assess the toxicity of pharmaceutical residues on marine bivalves; 15. Metabolic effects of pharmaceuticals in fish; 16. Pharmaceuticals and aquatic benthic organisms: toxicity and accumulation; 17. Endocrine disruption of pharmaceuticals on marine organisms: thyroidal, gonadotrophic and behavioural responses; 18. Biological effects of antidepressants on marine organisms; 19. Impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on the effects caused by pharmaceutical residues to marine organisms; 20. Strategies to remove pharmaceutical residues from seawater
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam : Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 363.738; Drugs -- Environmental aspects; Marine pollution; Marine pollution -- Prevention
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780081029725
• Related ISBNs: 9780081029718
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