R. C. Muirhead-Thomson, Muirhead-Thomson R. C.

Pesticide Impact on Stream Fauna

With Special Reference to Macroinvertebrates

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 1987, deals with pesticide contamination of running waters.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 465g
• ISBN-13: 9780521125284
• ISBN-10: 0521125286
• Artikelnr.: 28110780

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and acknowledgements
Part I. Introduction and Origin of Pesticides in Running Waters: 1. Introduction
2. Origins of pesticides in running waters
Part II. The Role of Laboratory and Experimental Methods in Evaluation: 3. Laboratory evaluation techniques
4. Artificial community streams and channels in situ
5. Invertebrate reaction to pesticides under laboratory and experimental conditions
Part III. Evaluation in Pest Control Projects: 6. Introduction to field sampling of aquatic macroinvertebrates in streams and rivers
7. Impact of insecticides used in control of the spruce budworm
8. Aquatic environmental effects of insecticides used in tsetse fly control
9. Effect on non-targets of larvicides applied to running waters for control of blackfly (Simulium) larvae
10. Impact of piscicides (and molluscicides)
11. Herbicides and aquatic invertebrates
Summary and assessment
References
Index.