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Pesticides in Aquatic Environments

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  • © 1977

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Editors:
  1. Mohammed Abdul Quddus Khan

    1. University of Illinois, Chicago, USA

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Part of the book series: Environmental Science Research (ESRH, volume 10)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Pesticides in Aquatic Environments an Overview

    1. Pesticides in Aquatic Environments an Overview

      • Thomas W. Duke
      Pages 1-8

  3. Pesticides in Aquatic Environments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Nature and Origins of Pollution of Aquatic Systems by Pesticides

      • Clive A. Edwards
      Pages 11-38

    3. Dynamics of Pesticides in Aquatic Environments

      • R. Haque, P. C. Kearney, V. H. Freed
      Pages 39-52

    4. Fate of Pesticides in Aquatic Environments

      • H. V. Morley
      Pages 53-74

  4. Dynamics of Pesticides in Aquatic Environments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. Absorption, Accumulation, and Elimination of Pesticides by Aquatic Organisms

      • Fumio Matsumura
      Pages 77-105

    3. Elimination of Pesticides by Aquatic Animals

      • M. A. Q. Khan
      Pages 107-125

    4. Model Ecosystem Studies of Bioconcentration and Biodegradation of Pesticides

      • Robert L. Metcalf
      Pages 127-144

    5. The Use of Laboratory Data to Predict the Distribution of Chlorpyrifos in a Fish Pond

      • W. Brock Neely, Gary E. Blau
      Pages 145-163

  5. Degradation of Pesticides by Aquatic Organisms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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    2. An Introduction to Pesticide Degradation by Aquatic Organisms

      • L. G. Hart
      Pages 167-170

    3. Xenobiotic Metabolizing Enzymes in Marine Fish

      • M. O. James, J. R. Fouts, J. R. Bend
      Pages 171-189

    4. Metabolism of Pesticides by Aquatic Animals

      • M. A. Q. Khan, F. Korte, J. F. Payne
      Pages 191-220

    5. Degradation of Dimilin® by Aquatic Foodwebs

      • Gary M. Booth, Duane Ferrell
      Pages 221-243

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 245-257
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About this book

Water covers about two-thirds of the surface of earth, but only 0.627 percent of this water is the sweet surface and subsurface water available for the survival of freshwater organisms including man (1,2). Some of this fresh or sweet water lies in practically uninhabitable regions (rivers: }1ackenzie in Canada; Amazon in Central America; Ob, Yenesey, and Lenta in Siberia, etc.). Also, most of the major rivers (the Mississippi in U.S.A., the Rhine in Europe, the Volga in U.S.S.R., the Ganges in India, etc.), because they flow through agricultural land or urban and industrial areas, have become highly contaminated with chemicals (3). This leaves us with shrinking resources of sweet surface water. In the United States, the dependable supplies of this water are already dwindling in cities like New York and Los Angeles and states like New Mexico and Texas (3).

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Illinois, Chicago, USA

    Mohammed Abdul Quddus Khan

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Pesticides in Aquatic Environments

  • Editors: Mohammed Abdul Quddus Khan

  • Series Title: Environmental Science Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2868-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1977

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-2870-4Published: 25 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-2868-1Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 257

  • Topics: Freshwater & Marine Ecology

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