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Tolerance to Environmental Contaminants
Claude Amiard-triquet
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.
464 pages, 60 black & white illustrations, 22 black & white tables
| Mídia | Livros Hardcover Book (Livro com lombada e capa dura) |
| Lançado | 21 de janeiro de 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9781439817704 |
| Editoras | Taylor & Francis Inc |
| Gênero | Interdisciplinary Studies > Environmental Studies |
| Páginas | 464 |
| Dimensões | 164 × 245 × 32 mm · 830 g |
| Idioma | Inglês |
| Editor | Amiard-Triquet, Claude |
| Editor | Rainbow, Philip S. |
| Editor | Romeo, Michele |
