Ecological Risk Assessment for Chlorpyrifos in Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems in the United States

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.

List of contents

Preface.- Foreword by Keith Solomon and John Giesy.- Foreword by Coordinating Board of Editors.- Ecological Risk Assessment for Chlorpyrifos in Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems in The United States - Overview and Conclusions.- Properties and Uses of Chlorpyrifos in the United States.- Fate in the Environment and Long-Range Atmospheric Transport of the Organophosphorus Insecticide, Chlorpyrifos and its Oxon in the United States.- Exposures of Aquatic Organisms to the Organophosphorus Insecticide, Chlorpyrifos Resulting from Use in the United States.- Risks to Aquatic Organisms from Use of Chlorpyrifos in the United States.- Refined Avian Risk Assessment for Chlorpyrifos in the United States.- Risk to Pollinators from the Use of Chlorpyrifos in the United States.- Index.

Product details

• Assisted by: John P. Giesy (Editor), Keith R. Solomon (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.09.2016
• EAN: 9783319355313
• ISBN: 978-3-31-935531-3
• No. of pages: 269
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 17 mm x 234 mm
• Weight: 441 g
• Illustrations: XVI, 269 p. 40 illus.
• Series: Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Chemistry > Miscellaneous; B, Abfallverwertung und -entsorgung, biochemistry, Earth and Environmental Science, Environmental Management, Waste Management, Waste Management/Waste Technology, Waste treatment & disposal, Environmental management,, Environmental Sciences, Ecotoxicology