Ecosystem Responses to Mercury Contamination: Indicators of Change

As rising levels of mercury in the environment pose an increasing threat of toxicity to humans and wildlife, several laws already call for industries to reduce mercury emissions at the source. Ecosystem Responses to Mercury Contamination: Indicators of Change outlines the infrastructure and methods...

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Những tác giả chính:	Harris, Reed, Krabbenhoft, David, Mason, Robert, Murray, Michael, Reash, Robin, Saltman, Tamara
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Được phát hành:	CRC Press 2009
Những chủ đề:	Environmental Sciences
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spelling	oai:scholar.dlu.edu.vn:DLU123456789-10232009-10-12T07:32:57Z Ecosystem Responses to Mercury Contamination: Indicators of Change Harris, Reed Krabbenhoft, David Mason, Robert Murray, Michael Reash, Robin Saltman, Tamara Environmental Sciences As rising levels of mercury in the environment pose an increasing threat of toxicity to humans and wildlife, several laws already call for industries to reduce mercury emissions at the source. Ecosystem Responses to Mercury Contamination: Indicators of Change outlines the infrastructure and methods needed to measure, monitor, and regulate the concentration of mercury present in the environment. This book draws on the knowledge of forty international experts in the fields of atmospheric transport and deposition, mercury cycling in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and mercury bioaccumulation in aquatic foodwebs and wildlife. The authors propose a set of indicators to use as a measure of changing mercury concentrations in the environment. Next, they recommend a monitoring strategy and offer guidance for determining systematic changes in concentration. Then the authors examine additional monitoring strategies to relate observed changes in concentration to regulatory controls on mercury emissions. The final chapter provides an integrated framework for establishing a national-scale program to monitor mercury concentrations in the environment. Ecosystem Responses to Mercury Contamination: Indicators of Change contains the information needed to design a large-scale monitoring program for mercury and to use the concentration data to create, enforce, and evaluate the progress of initiatives aimed at reducing mercury emissions. INTRODUCTION Mercury Emissions and Deposition Mercury Concentration Trends in Fish Book Objectives Sampling Strategy AIRSHEDS AND WATERSHEDS Introduction Airsheds Watersheds MONITORING AND EVALUATING TRENDS IN SEDIMENT AND WATER INDICATORS Introduction Sediment and Water Indicators Candidate Indicators Monitoring Strategy Ancillary Data Anticipating Response Times MONITORING AND EVALUATING TRENDS IN METHYLMERCURY ACCUMULATION IN AQUATIC BIOTA Introduction Objectives Aquatic Biological Indicators Monitoring and Trend Analysis Ancillary Data Interpretation of Biological Monitoring Data WILDLIFE INDICATORS Objectives Host Factors Types of Bioindicators Candidate Bioindicator Species Tissue and Other Samples Physiological, Cellular and Molecular Biomarkers Elements of a Biomonitoring Framework Conclusions AN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK FOR ECOLOGICAL MERCURY ASSESSMENTS Recurring Themes Complexities/Confounding Factors Recommendations Acknowledgements 2009-10-12T07:32:57Z 2009-10-12T07:32:57Z 2007 Book http://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/1023 en application/octet-stream CRC Press
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description	As rising levels of mercury in the environment pose an increasing threat of toxicity to humans and wildlife, several laws already call for industries to reduce mercury emissions at the source. Ecosystem Responses to Mercury Contamination: Indicators of Change outlines the infrastructure and methods needed to measure, monitor, and regulate the concentration of mercury present in the environment. This book draws on the knowledge of forty international experts in the fields of atmospheric transport and deposition, mercury cycling in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and mercury bioaccumulation in aquatic foodwebs and wildlife. The authors propose a set of indicators to use as a measure of changing mercury concentrations in the environment. Next, they recommend a monitoring strategy and offer guidance for determining systematic changes in concentration. Then the authors examine additional monitoring strategies to relate observed changes in concentration to regulatory controls on mercury emissions. The final chapter provides an integrated framework for establishing a national-scale program to monitor mercury concentrations in the environment. Ecosystem Responses to Mercury Contamination: Indicators of Change contains the information needed to design a large-scale monitoring program for mercury and to use the concentration data to create, enforce, and evaluate the progress of initiatives aimed at reducing mercury emissions.
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title	Ecosystem Responses to Mercury Contamination: Indicators of Change
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