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As rising levels of mercury in the environment pose an increasing threat of toxicity to humans and wildlife, several laws already call for industries to reduce mercury emissions at the source. "Ecosystem Responses to Mercury Contamination: Indicators of Change" outlines the infrastructure and methods needed to measure, monitor, and regulate the concentration of mercury present in the environment. This book draws on the knowledge of forty international experts in the fields of atmospheric transport and deposition, mercury cycling in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and mercury bioaccumulation in aquatic foodwebs and wildlife. The authors propose a set of indicators to use as a measure of changing mercury concentrations in the environment. Next, they recommend a monitoring strategy and offer guidance for determining systematic changes in concentration. Then the authors examine additional monitoring strategies to relate observed changes in concentration to regulatory controls on mercury emissions. The final chapter provides an integrated framework for establishing a national-scale program to monitor mercury concentrations in the environment. "Ecosystem Responses to Mercury Contamination: Indicators of Change" contains the information needed to design a large-scale monitoring program for mercury and to use the concentration data to create, enforce, and evaluate the progress of initiatives aimed at reducing mercury emissions.
| ISBN | 0849388929 | | Pages | 240 | | ISBN13 | 9780849388927
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Taylor & Francis Inc | | Weight (grammes) | 476 | | Imprint | CRC Press Inc | | Published in | Bosa Roca | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 235 | | Publication date | 05 Mar 2007 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | Library of Congress | 2006049169 | | Spine width (mm) | 18 | | DEWEY | 363.739 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| Ch. 1 | | Introduction by Reed Harris and David Krabbenhoft and Robert Mason and Michael W. Murray and Robin Reash and Tamara Saltman | | 1 | | Ch. 2 | | Airsheds and watersheds by Charles T. Driscoll and Michael Abbott and Russell Bullock and John Jansen and Dennis Leonard and Steven Lindberg and John Munthe and Nicola Pirrone and Mark Nilles | | 13 | | Ch. 3 | | Monitoring and evaluating trends in sediment and water indicators by David Krabbenhoft and Daniel Engstrom and Cynthia Gilmour and Reed Harris and James Hurley and Robert Mason | | 47 | | Ch. 4 | | Monitoring and evaluating trends in methylmercury accumulation in aquatic biota by James G. Wiener and R. A. Bodaly and Steven S. Brown and Marc Lucotte and Michael C. Newman and Donald B. Porcella and Robin J. Reash and Edward B. Swain | | 87 | | Ch. 5 | | Wildlife indicators by Marti F. Wolfe and Thomas Atkeson and William Bowerman and Joanna Burger and David C. Evers and Michael W. Murray and Edward Zillioux | | 123 | | Ch. 6 | | An integrated framework for ecological mercury assessments by Tamara Saltman and Reed Harris and Michael W. Murray and Rob Reash | | 191 |
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