Pesticides in Aquatic Environments

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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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).

• Europe
• agriculture
• bioconcentration
• ecosystem
• environment
• fish
• food
• pesticide
• pesticides
• pollution
• rivers
• water

• University of Illinois, Chicago, USA

  Mohammed Abdul Quddus Khan

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