Plants for Environmental Studies / Edition 1

by Wuncheng Wang, Joseph W. Gorsuch, Jane Hughes

Overview

One of the problems of using plants in environmental studies is finding current information. Because plants play a key role in environmental studies, from the greenhouse effect to environmental toxicological studies, information is widely scattered over many different fields and in many different sources. Plants for Environmental Studies solves that problem with a single, comprehensive source of information on the many ways plants are used in environmental studies.
Written by experts from around the world and edited by a team of prominent environmental specialists, this book is the only source of complete information on environmental impacts, mutation, statistical analyses, relationships between plants and water, algae, plants in ecological risk assessment, compound accumulations, and more. Encompassing algae and vascular plants in both aquatic and terrestrial environments, this book contains a diverse collection of laboratory and in situ studies, methods, and procedures using plants to evaluate air, water, wastewater, sediment, and soil.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781566700283
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/30/1997
Pages:	576
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Wuncheng (Woodrow) Wang is a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Before 1991, he was a principal scientist with the Illinois State Water Survey in Peoria, IL. He has been chairing two Joint Task Groups (Lemna and marsh plants) of the Standard Methods Committee since 1987 and chaired the First ASTM Symposium on Use of Plants for Toxicity Assessment in 1989. His interest is the use of plants for water quality assessment. Joseph (Joe) W. Gorsuch is Director of Silver Issues with Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY. For the 22 years prior to April 1, 1996, he was Group Leader and Senior Environmental Toxicologist at Kodak. He chaired the ASTM E47.11 Subcommittee on Plant Toxicology from 1992 to 1995, chaired the Second ASTM Symposium on Use of Plants for Toxicity Assessment in 1990, and co-chaired the First ASTM Symposium in 1989. He is interested in using plants to evaluate sludge application practices. Jane S. Hughes is the founder and president of Carolina Ecotox, Inc., a contract environmental toxicology testing laboratory in Durham, NC. She has nearly 20 years of experience conducting and supervising aquatic toxicity testing with a variety of plants and animals to meet diverse regulatory requirements. Her specialty is aquatic plant toxicity testing, and she has chaired methods development activities relating to algae, duckweed, and aquatic macrophytes in ASTM’s Committee E-47 on Biological Effects and Environmental Fate. She also served as co-chair and chair for the First and Third ASTM Symposia on Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment.

Table of Contents

The Effects of Ultra Violet-B Radiation on Higher Plants. Radiation Effects on Plants. Plant Activation of Environmental Agents: The Utility of the Plant Cell/Microbe Coincubation Assay. Statistical Methods in Plant Environmental Studies. Water Quality and Aquatic Plants. Algal Indicators of Aquatic Ecosystem Conditions and Change. Photosynthetic Electron Transport as a Bioassay. Laboratory Bioassays with Microalgae. Aquatic Plant Communities for Impact Monitoring and Assessment. Allium Test for Screening Chemicals; Evaluation of Cytological Parameters. The Use of Vascular Plants as "Field" Biomonitors. Metal Accumulation by Aquatic Macrophytes. Bioaccumulation of Xenobiotic Organic Chemicals by Terrestrial Plants. Uptake of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons by Vegetation: A Review of Experimental Methods. Plant Uptake and Metabolism Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs). Selection of Phytotoxicity Tests for Use in Ecological Risk Assessments. Index.

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Editorial Reviews

"A broad overview of the use of aquatic and terrestrial environment vascular plants and of algae in environmental studies is provided by this comprehensive, data-rich, advanced-level book."
-Environmental Science & Technology
"This book constitutes a rare, comprehensive source on using plants for environmental studies and monitoring... A benchmark work, useful for upper-division undergraduates through research scientists."
-Choice
"...well edited and supplied with a detailed index. I can recommend it as an excellent comprehensive source of information on the many ways how plants are used in environmental studies."-Photosynthetica

From the Publisher

A comprehensive source of information on environmental impacts, mutation, statistical analyses, relationships between plants and water, algae, plants in ecological risk assessment, and compound accumulations. Encompassing algae and vascular plants in both aquatic and terrestrial environments, the 17 papers in this collection present laboratory and "in situ" studies, methods and procedures using plants to evaluate air, water, wastewater, sediment and soil. Topics include the effects of UV-B radiation on higher plants, allium test for screening chemicals, and metal accumulation by aquatic macrophytes. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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