Plants for Environmental Studies - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1566700280 ISBN 13: 9781566700283

Publisher: CRC Press, 1997

Synopsis

One of the problems of using plants in environmental studies is finding current information. Because plants play a key role in environmental studies, from the greenhouse effect to environmental toxicological studies, information is widely scattered over many different fields and in many different sources. Plants for Environmental Studies solves that problem with a single, comprehensive source of information on the many ways plants are used in environmental studies. Written by experts from around the world and edited by a team of prominent environmental specialists, this book is the only source of complete information on environmental impacts, mutation, statistical analyses, relationships between plants and water, algae, plants in ecological risk assessment, compound accumulations, and more. Encompassing algae and vascular plants in both aquatic and terrestrial environments, this book contains a diverse collection of laboratory and in situ studies, methods, and procedures using plants to evaluate air, water, wastewater, sediment, and soil.

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About the Author

Wuncheng (Woodrow) Wang is a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Before 1991, he was a principal scientist with the Illinois State Water Survey in Peoria, IL. He has been chairing two Joint Task Groups (Lemna and marsh plants) of the Standard Methods Committee since 1987 and chaired the First ASTM Symposium on Use of Plants for Toxicity Assessment in 1989. His interest is the use of plants for water quality assessment. Joseph (Joe) W. Gorsuch is Director of Silver Issues with Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY. For the 22 years prior to April 1, 1996, he was Group Leader and Senior Environmental Toxicologist at Kodak. He chaired the ASTM E47.11 Subcommittee on Plant Toxicology from 1992 to 1995, chaired the Second ASTM Symposium on Use of Plants for Toxicity Assessment in 1990, and co-chaired the First ASTM Symposium in 1989. He is interested in using plants to evaluate sludge application practices. Jane S. Hughes is the founder and president of Carolina Ecotox, Inc., a contract environmental toxicology testing laboratory in Durham, NC. She has nearly 20 years of experience conducting and supervising aquatic toxicity testing with a variety of plants and animals to meet diverse regulatory requirements. Her specialty is aquatic plant toxicity testing, and she has chaired methods development activities relating to algae, duckweed, and aquatic macrophytes in ASTM’s Committee E-47 on Biological Effects and Environmental Fate. She also served as co-chair and chair for the First and Third ASTM Symposia on Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment.

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1566700280
• ISBN 13: 9781566700283
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 576
• Editor: Wang Wuncheng, Gorsuch Joseph W., Hughes Jane S.