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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Biodegradation and Persistence
  title info:
    title: With contributions by numerous experts
  name:
    name part: Beek, B.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2001
    edition: 1st ed. 2001.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 327 p. 33 illus. online resource.
  abstract: Biodegradation is a key phenomenon among environmental processes. Low degradation rates lead to the persistance of chemicals in the environment and, as a consequence, to delayed or long-term effects, which may be even unknown by now. The persistance of these xenobiotics has become of a great public and political concern in recent years. This is, among others, reflected by the international activities of the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) which mainly deals with the problems, risk assessment and environmental management of POPs (persistant organic pollutants), PEPs (persistant environmental pollutants) and PBTs (persistant bioaccumulative toxic substances). In this volume the editor has pulled together the newest results of research on biodegradation and persistance of potential environmentally harmful substances and the complex processes involved. One main focus is on the microbial degradation, the evolution and predictability of the respective pathways and their impact on bioremediation. Additional chapters deal with sewage treatment plants, the impact of toxicants on impaired biodegradation, and with the need of a more realistic view on fate and behaviour of chemicals in the environment.
  table of contents: W. Reineke: Aerobic and Anaerobic Biodegradation Potentials of Microorganisms -- T.N.P. Bosma/H.Harms/A.J.B. Zehnder: Biodegradation of Xenobiotics in Environment and Technosphere -- W. Pauli/K. Jax/S. Berger: Protozoa in Wastewater Treatment: Function and Importance -- J.B. Wesnigk/M. Keskin/W. Jonas/K. Figge/G. Rheinheimer: Predictability of Biodegradation on the Environment - Limits of Prediction from Experimental Data -- B. Beek/S. Böhling/ C. Franke/U. Jöhncke/G.Studinger/E. Thumm: The Assessment of Biodegradation and Persistence.
  note: edited by B. Beek.
  subject:
    topic: Geoecology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental geology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental pollution
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Geoecology/Natural Processes
  subject:
    topic: Terrestrial Pollution
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Management
  classification: QE38
  classification: 333.7
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Reactions and Processes, 2 / 2K
  identifier: 9783540680963
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/10508767
  record info:
    record creation date: 121227
    record change date: 20191028012734.0
    record identifier: 978-3-540-68096-3