Eisler's encyclopedia of environmentally hazardous priority chemicals

Thousands of inorganic and organic chemicals and their metabolites enter the biosphere daily as a direct result of human activities. Many of these chemicals have serious consequences on sensitive species of natural resources, crops, livestock, and public health. The most hazardous of these were iden...

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Main Author Eisler, Ronald, 1932-
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier, 2007.
Subjects
Persistent pollutants > Environmental aspects.
Persistent pollutants > Toxicology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780080547077
0080547079
044453105X
9780444531056
Physical Description1 online resource (xxv, 950 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • PREFACE
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  • BOOKS BY RONALD EISLER
  • LIST OF TABLES
  • LIST OF FIGURES
  • Table of contents
  • 1 Acrolein
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Sources and Uses
  • 1.2.1 Sources
  • 1.2.2 Uses
  • 1.3 Environmental Chemistry
  • 1.3.1 Chemical Properties
  • 1.3.2 Persistence
  • 1.3.3 Metabolism
  • 1.4 Lethal and Sublethal Effects
  • 1.4.1 Terrestrial Plants and Invertebrates
  • 1.4.2 Aquatic Organisms
  • 1.4.3 Birds
  • 1.4.4 Mammals
  • 1.5 Recommendations
  • 1.6 Summary
  • 2 Arsenic
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Sources, Fate, and Uses
  • 2.3 Chemical and Biochemical Properties
  • 2.4 Essentiality, Synergism, and Antagonism
  • 2.5 Concentrations in Field Collections
  • 2.5.1 Abiotic Materials
  • 2.5.2 Biological Samples
  • 2.6 Lethal and Sublethal Effects
  • 2.6.1 Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, and Teratogenesis
  • 2.6.2 Terrestrial Plants and Invertebrates
  • 2.6.3 Aquatic Biota
  • 2.6.4 Birds
  • 2.6.5 Mammals
  • 2.7 Recommendations
  • 2.8 Summary
  • 3 Atrazine
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Environmental Chemistry
  • 3.3 Concentrations in Field Collections
  • 3.4 Effects
  • 3.4.1 Terrestrial Plants and Invertebrates
  • 3.4.2 Aquatic Plants
  • 3.4.3 Aquatic Animals
  • 3.4.4 Birds
  • 3.4.5 Mammals
  • 3.5 Recommendations
  • 3.6 Summary
  • 4 Boron
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Environmental Chemistry
  • 4.2.1 Sources and Uses
  • 4.2.2 Chemical Properties
  • 4.2.3 Mode of Action
  • 4.3 Concentrations in Field Collections
  • 4.3.1 Nonbiological Materials
  • 4.3.2 Plants and Animals
  • 4.4 Effects
  • 4.4.1 Terrestrial Plants
  • 4.4.2 Terrestrial Invertebrates
  • 4.4.3 Aquatic Organisms
  • 4.4.4 Birds
  • 4.4.5 Mammals
  • 4.5 Recommendations
  • 4.6 Summary
  • 5 Cadmium
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Environmental Chemistry
  • 5.3 Concentrations in Field Collections
  • 5.4 Lethal Effects
  • 5.5 Sublethal Effects
  • 5.6 Bioaccumulation
  • 5.7 Teratogenesis, Mutagenesis, and Carcinogenesis
  • 5.8 Recommendations
  • 5.9 Summary
  • 6 Carbofuran
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Chemical Properties and Persistence
  • 6.3 Lethal Effects
  • 6.3.1 Aquatic Animals
  • 6.3.2 Aquatic and Terrestrial Plants
  • 6.3.3 Terrestrial Invertebrates
  • 6.3.4 Birds and Mammals
  • 6.4 Sublethal Effects
  • 6.4.1 Terrestrial Invertebrates
  • 6.4.2 Aquatic Biota
  • 6.4.3 Birds
  • 6.4.4 Mammals
  • 6.5 Recommendations
  • 6.6 Summary
  • 7 Chlordane
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Chemical and Biochemical Properties
  • 7.3 Uses
  • 7.4 Concentrations in Field Collections
  • 7.4.1 Abiotic Materials
  • 7.4.2 Terrestrial Crops
  • 7.4.3 Aquatic Invertebrates
  • 7.4.4 Fishes.

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