ASTM STP 1096 Aquatic Toxicology and Risk Assessment: Third Volume
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Landis, WG
The 13th Symposium on Aquatic Toxicology and Risk Assessment was held in April, 1989. The event was sponsored by ASTM Committee E-47 on Biological Effects and Environmental Fate and its Subcommittee E47.01 on Aquatic Toxicology. This publication contains peer-reviewed papers resulting from presentations during the symposium.
The topic headings used to organize papers in this publication are
- Risk Assessment and Aquatic Toxicology
- Biodegradation and Environmental Fate of Xenobiotics
- Sediment Toxicity and Bioavailability
- Aquatic Toxicology
- Comparative Aquatic Toxicity and Mechanisms
- Sublethal Indicators of Toxic Stress
Specific topics addressed by the papers in this collection include:
- risk assessment
- hazard assessment
- community response
- prediction of adverse effects
- detection of adverse effects
- xenobiotoic compound test systems
- microcosms
- chemical persistence
- chemical fate testing
- heavy metal bioavailability
- sediment toxicity bioassays
- route of exposure
- in situ marine biological monitoring
- amphibian toxicity tests
- paraquat toxicity assessment
- nitrogen-containing aromatic compounds (NCACs)
- flow cytometric techniques
- algae
- comparative developmental toxicity
- genotoxic compounds
- antibody producing cells
- stress proteins
- DNA damage
- coastal oil drilling