UV Effects in Aquatic Organisms and Ecosystems

This book offers extensive coverage of the most important aspects of UVR effects on all aquatic ecosystems, encompassing UV physics, chemistry, biology and ecology.

List of contents

Solar Radiation as an Ecosystem Modulator; UVR Climatology; Water Column Optics and Penetration of UVR; Modulation of UVR Exposure and Effects by Vertical Mixing and Advection; Solar UVR and Aquatic Carbon, Nitrogen, Sulfur and Metals Cycles; Photochemistry of Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter in Natural Waters; Photoactivated Toxicity in Aquatic Environments; Reactive Oxygen Species in Aquatic Ecosystems; UVR-Induced DNA Damage in Aquatic Organisms; Photoprotective Physiological and Biochemical Responses of Aquatic Organisms to UVR; Photosynthesis in the Aquatic Environment as Affected by UVR; Subject Index.

Product details

• Authors: European Society for Photobiology, E. W. Helbling
• Assisted by: E Walter Helbling (Editor), E. W. Helbling (Editor), E. Walter Helbling (Editor), E.Walter Helbling (Editor), H. Zagarese (Editor), Horacio Zagarese (Editor)
• Publisher: RSC Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780854043019
• ISBN: 978-0-85404-301-9
• No. of pages: 598
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 1007 g
• Series: Comprehensive Series in Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences; Comprehensive Series in Photoc; Comprehensive Series in Photochemical; Comprehensive Series in Photochemical; Comprehensive Series in Photoc; Comprehensive Photochemical
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Chemistry > Organic chemistry