Compendium of Trace Metals and Marine Biota: Volume 1: Plants and Invertebrates (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780444534361)

Each book has two main goals

1. Determine baseline concentrations of metals and metalloids in tissues of representative field populations of estuarine coastal, and open ocean organisms (Book 1: algae and macrophytes, protists, sponges, coelenterates, molluscs, crustaceans, insects, chaetognaths, annelids, echinoderms, and tunicates) (Book 2: elasmobranchs, fishes, reptiles, birds, mammals) and their significance to organism health and to the health of their consumers.

2. Synthesize existing information on biological, chemical, and physical factors known to modify uptake, retention, and translocation of each element under field and laboratory conditions. Recognition of the importance of these modifiers and their accompanying interactions is essential to the understanding of metals kinetics in marine systems and to the interpretation of baseline residue data.

Author: Ronald Eisler
ISBN-10: 0444534369
ISBN-13: 9780444534361
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2009
Pages: 638
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.25lbs
Size: 9.30h x 7.60w x 1.20d