Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology / Volume 181 (Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: January 8, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780387205199
Subjects: Pollution & threats to the environment; Science; Nature; Science/Mathematics; Ecology; Environmental Science; Life Sciences - Ecology; Environmental; Science / Ecology; mining; pesticides
First sentence: Approximately 890 active ingredients are registered as pesticides and are applied at a rate exceeding 2 billion kg each year in the United States (Aspelin and Grube 1999).