Trace Metals in the Environment and Living Organisms - The British Isles As a Case Study

Without trace metals there would be no life, yet trace metals can eliminate life. Where, why and so what?

List of contents

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Metals and mining; 3. Biology of trace metals; 4. Terrestrial Environment; 5. Freshwater; 6. Estuaries; 7. Coastal seas and oceans; 8. Epilogue; References; Index.

About the author

Philip S. Rainbow has more than forty years' experience of research into the biology of trace metals. As lecturer, reader and professor at Queen Mary University of London, he taught students at undergraduate, Master's and Ph.D. levels, and often ran courses overseas. From 1997 to 2013, he was Keeper of Zoology and subsequently Head of the Department of Life Sciences, at the Natural History Museum, London. He has published more than 250 refereed scientific publications, including two co-authored and seven edited books, and also upwards of thirty popular articles. In 2002, he was awarded the Environmental Pollution Kenneth Mellanby Review Award.

Product details

• Authors: Philip S Rainbow, Philip S. Rainbow, Philip S. (Natural History Museum Rainbow, Rainbow Philip S.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781108470933
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47093-3
• No. of pages: 756
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; NATURE / Natural Resources, Applied ecology, Rocks, minerals & fossils, The Earth: Natural History General, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Historical Geology, Rocks, minerals and fossils: general interest, Historical geology and palaeogeology