Small-scale Freshwater Toxicity Investigations Hazard Assessment Schemes /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Blaise, Christian (Editor), Férard, Jean-François (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Subjects: Environment.; Water quality.; Water pollution.; Aquatic ecology.; Ecotoxicology.; Pollution.; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis.; Freshwater & Marine Ecology.; Pollution, general.; Water Quality/Water Pollution.; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution.

Developed, developing and emerging economies worldwide are collectively contributing multiple stresses on aquatic ecosystems by the release of numerous contaminants. This in turn demands that basic toxicological information on their potential to harm living species be available. Hence, environmental...

Table of Contents:

• Overview of contemporary toxicity testing
• Effluent assessment with the Peep (Potential Ecotoxic Effects Probe) index
• A multitest index of effluent toxicity by PLS regression
• The pT-method as a Hazard Assessment Scheme for wastewaters
• Strategies for monitoring environmental effects of industrial effluents
• Overview of toxicity reduction and identification evaluations for use with small-scale tests
• Determination of the Heavy Metal Binding Capacity (HMBC) of Environmental Samples
• The Application of Hazard Assessment Schemes Using the Watertox Toxicity Testing Battery
• The SED-TOX Index for Toxicity Assessment of contaminated solid matrices
• The pT-Method as a Hazard Assessment Scheme for sediments and dredged material
• Using the Sediment Quality Triad (Sqt) in ecological risk assessment
• Wastoxhas: A bioanalytical strategy for solid wastes assessment.