Use of biomarkers for environmental quality assessment. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editors, Laurent Lagadic, Thierry Caquet, Jean-Claude Amiard and François Ramade.
• Authors: Amiard, Jean-Claude
• Editors: Lagadic, Laurent; Caquet, Thierry; Amiard, J. C; Ramade, François
• Contents: Introduction: biomarkers as tools for environmental quality assessment; history - biological basis of the use of biomarkers in ecotoxology; biochemical indicators of pollution in coastal ecosystems: experience of the Groupe Interface Chimie-Biologie des Ecosystemes Marins (GICBEM); application of EROD in marine fish in a multidisciplinary surveillance programme in the North Sea; use of EROD and PAH distribution in marine organisms; use of EROD enzymatic activity in freshwater fish; biomarkers of exposure of terrestrial plants to pollutants: application to metal pollution; endocrine biomarkers: hormonal indicators of sublethal toxicity in fishes; use of retinoids as biomarkers; molecular, genetic and population bases of insect resistance to insecticides.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 363.7063; Environmental quality -- Evaluation; Biochemical markers
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000448375
• Related ISBNs: 9781000445640; 9781003211020
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