Philip S Rainbow

Trace Metals in the Environment and Living Organisms

The British Isles as a Case Study

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Produktbeschreibung

Without trace metals there would be no life, yet trace metals can eliminate life. Where, why and so what?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 756
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 252mm x 194mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1778g
• ISBN-13: 9781108470933
• ISBN-10: 1108470939
• Artikelnr.: 51966640

Autorenporträt

Philip S. Rainbow has more than forty years' experience of research into the biology of trace metals. As lecturer, reader and professor at Queen Mary University of London, he taught students at undergraduate, Master's and Ph.D. levels, and often ran courses overseas. From 1997 to 2013, he was Keeper of Zoology and subsequently Head of the Department of Life Sciences, at the Natural History Museum, London. He has published more than 250 refereed scientific publications, including two co-authored and seven edited books, and also upwards of thirty popular articles. In 2002, he was awarded the Environmental Pollution Kenneth Mellanby Review Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Metals and mining
3. Biology of trace metals
4. Terrestrial Environment
5. Freshwater
6. Estuaries
7. Coastal seas and oceans
8. Epilogue
References
Index.