About the Book
This work offers a comprehensive discussion of environmental stressors affecting aquatic ecosystems and organisms. With contributions from leading scientists in the field, it is a practical manual for students and researchers on the use of biocriteria. This volume may be used as a manual for scientists, students, and others, in a variety of disciplines and applications..
Table of Contents:
1: Introduction, S Marshall Adams, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA 2: Biochemical Responses as Indicators of Aquatic Ecosystem Health, D Schlenk, University of California and R T Di Giuilo, Duke University, North Carolina, USA 3: Molecular Biomarkers in Aquatic Organisms: DNA- and RNA-Based Endpoints, I I Wirgin, New York University and C W Theodorakis, Texas Tech University, USA 4: Physiological and Condition-Related Indicators of Environmental Stress in Fish, B A Barton, University of South Dakota, J D Morgan, Malaspina University, British Columbia and M M Vijayan, University of Waterloo, Canada 5: Genetic Responses as Population-Level Biomarkers of Stress in Aquatic Ecosystems, C W Theodorakis, Texas Tech University and I I Wirgin, New York University, USA 6: Immunological Indicators of Environmental Stress and Disease Susceptibility in Fishes, C D Rice, Clemson University and M R Arkoosh, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA, USA 7: Histopathological Biomarkers as Integrators of Anthropogenic and Environmental Stressors, M S Myers, US National Marine Fisheries Service and J W Fournie, US Environmental Protection Agency, Florida, USA 8: Evaluating Stress in Fish Using Bioenergetics-Based Stressor-Response Models, D W Beyers, Colorado State University and J A Rice, North Carolina State University, USA 9: Reproductive Stress, M S Greeley, Jr, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA 10: Assessing Fish Population Responses to Stress, M Power, University of Waterloo, Canada 11: Behavioral Measures of Environmental Stressors in Fish, E E Little, US Geological Survey, USA 12: Community-Level Indicators of Stress in Aquatic Ecosystems, M J Attrill, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK 13: Integration of Population, Community, and Landscape Indicators for Assessing Effects of Stressors, D L DeAngelis, US Geological Survey and J L Curnutt, Florida International University, USA 14: Assessing Contaminant-Induced Stress across Levels of Biological Organization, L L Johnson, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA and T K Collier, US National Marine Fisheries Service, USA 15: Statistical Considerations in the Development, Evaluation, and Use of Biomarkers in Environmental Studies, E P Smith, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, USA 16: Synthesis Across Chapters and Topics, P Hodson, Queens University, Canada
