New Microbiotests for Routine Toxicity Screening and Biomonitoring
Contributors: Guido Persoone (Editor); Colin Janssen (Editor); Wim De Coen (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: May 31, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780306464065
Subjects: Pollution & threats to the environment; Toxicology (non-medical); Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Biology - Microbiology; Science / Environmental Science; Environmental Science; Toxicology; Effect of xenobiotics on; Environmental Toxicology; In vitro; Methodology; Microorganisms; Toxicity testing
First sentence: Ecotoxicity problems stemming from this century's industrial revolution eventually triggered the need for ecotoxicology, a unique field of the biological sciences devoted to issues surrounding the release of countless man-made chemicals to the biosphere and the potentially harmful effects they can exert, alone or in combination, toward biota of receiving environments.