Pesticide Impact on Stream Fauna

Klappentext This book! first published in 1987! deals with pesticide contamination of running waters. Zusammenfassung The problem of pesticide contamination of running waters is one of concern in many different fields of human activity. This book! first published in 1987! deals with three aspects of pesticide contamination. The account will be of value to freshwater biologists generally but especially to those directly involved in work with pesticides! freshwater fisheries and public health. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction and Origin of Pesticides in Running Waters: 1. Introduction; 2. Origins of pesticides in running waters; Part II. The Role of Laboratory and Experimental Methods in Evaluation: 3. Laboratory evaluation techniques; 4. Artificial community streams and channels in situ; 5. Invertebrate reaction to pesticides under laboratory and experimental conditions; Part III. Evaluation in Pest Control Projects: 6. Introduction to field sampling of aquatic macroinvertebrates in streams and rivers; 7. Impact of insecticides used in control of the spruce budworm; 8. Aquatic environmental effects of insecticides used in tsetse fly control; 9. Effect on non-targets of larvicides applied to running waters for control of blackfly (Simulium) larvae; 10. Impact of piscicides (and molluscicides); 11. Herbicides and aquatic invertebrates; Summary and assessment; References; Index.

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• Authors: R. Muirhead-Thomson, R. C. Muirhead-Thomson, Muirhead-Thomson R. C., Muirhead-Thomson R. C.
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2009
• EAN: 9780521125284
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12528-4
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Entomology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Invertebrates, environmental science, engineering & technology, Pollution and threats to the environment, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Zoology: invertebrates