E-Book, Englisch, 464 Seiten
Amiard-Triquet / Rainbow / Romeo Tolerance to Environmental Contaminants
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4398-1771-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
E-Book, Englisch, 464 Seiten
Reihe: Environmental and Ecological Risk Assessment
ISBN: 978-1-4398-1771-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Tolerance, the ability of populations to cope with the chemical stress resulting from toxic contaminants, has been described in many organisms from bacteria to fungi, from phytoplankton to terrestrial flowering plants, and from invertebrates such as worms to vertebrates like fish and amphibians. The building of tolerance, be it by physiological acclimation or genetic adaptation, can have great consequences for the local biodiversity, and hence the ecology and ecosystem functioning of many of the world’s habitats. Understanding the frequency of the occurrence of tolerance has tremendous implications for the sustainability of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.
Tolerance to Environmental Contaminants takes a multidisciplinary approach across contaminant types, habitats, organisms, biological levels of organization and scientific disciplines. The book examines the general principles governing the acquisition and biological consequences of tolerance, genetically or physiologically based, at different levels of biological organization, taxonomically from bacteria and archaea to flowering plants and vertebrates, and within organisms from molecular biology and biochemistry through physiology to whole organism, community, and ecosystem levels of organization.
Presenting a state-of-the-art synthesis of the many aspects of the phenomenon of tolerance to environmental contaminants, this volume covers mechanisms of defense involved in the acquisition of tolerance, different classes of environmental contaminants, positive and negative ecological consequences of tolerance and the impact of tolerance in bacteria, plants, and insects on society. The reviews presented in this book supply the tools for carrying out more informed and therefore more reliable risk-benefit analyses when assessing the ecotoxicological risks to life in any of the contaminated habitats that now surround us in our industrialized society.
Zielgruppe
Environmental toxicologists, regulatory scientists, senior undergraduate and graduate students in environmental toxicology, ecology, marine biology, microbiology, environmental management, and environmental regulation.
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Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Preface
About the Editors
Contributors
Pollution Tolerance: From Fundamental Biological Mechanisms to Ecological Consequences, Claude Amiard-Triquet
Tolerance to Contaminants: Evidence from Chronically Exposed Populations of Aquatic Organisms, Emma L. Johnston
Inter- and Intraspecific Variability of Tolerance: Implications for Bioassays and Biomonitoring, Brigitte Berthet, Kenneth M. Y. Leung, and Claude Amiard-Triquet
Microbial Pollution-Induced Community Tolerance, Ahmed Tlili and Bernard Montuelle
Tolerance to Natural Environmental Change and the Effect of Added Chemical Stress. Herman Hummel, Adam Sokolowski, Christiaan Hummel, and Sander Wijnhoven
Mechanisms of Defence and the Acquisition of Tolerance to Chemical Stress
Biodynamic Parameters of the Accumulation of Toxic Metals, Detoxification, and the Acquisition of Metal Tolerance, Philip S. Rainbow and Samuel N. Luoma
Antioxidant Defenses and Acquisition of Tolerance to Chemical Stress, Francesco Regoli, Maura Benedetti, and Maria Elisa Giuliani
Biotransformation of Organic Contaminants and the Acquisition of Resistance, Michèle Roméo and Isaac Wirgin
Stress Proteins and the Acquisition of Tolerance, Catherine Mouneyrac and Michèle Roméo
The Multixenobiotic Transport System: A System Governing Intracellular Contaminant Bioavailability, Gautier Damiens and Christophe Minier
Ecological and Ecophysiological Aspects of Tolerance
Tolerance and Biodiversity, Judith S. Weis
Cost of Tolerance, Catherine Mouneyrac, Priscilla T. Y. Leung, and Kenneth M. Y. Leung
Tolerance and the Trophic Transfer of Contaminants, Claude Amiard-Triquet and Philip S. Rainbow
Case Studies
Bacterial Tolerance in Contaminated Soils: Potential of the PICT Approach in Microbial Ecology, Gwenaël Imfeld, Françoise Bringel, and Stéphane Vuilleumier
Adaptation to Metals in Higher Plants: The Case of Arabidopsis halleri (Brassicaceae), Hélène Frérot, Patrick de Laguérie, Anne Créach, Claire-Lise Meyer, Maxime Pauwels, and Pierre Saumitou-Laprade
Insecticides with Novel Modes of Action: Mechanism and Resistance Management, Murad Ghanim and Isaac Ishaaya
Conclusions, Claude Amiard-Triquet and Michèle Roméo
Index
