Overview
- Includes accessible and comprehensive guidance on the strategic and operational decisions to determine the most effective protocols to achieve successful bioremediation within an environment
- Offers authoritative advice ranging from monitoring and assessing the impact of pollutants on biological community structure and activity, to choosing specific techniques to bioremediate contaminated environments and quantify their outcomes
- Details complementary molecular and physiological techniques used in bioremediation studies, offering insights into the applications and pitfalls of each
- Provides broad coverage of the application of cutting-edge molecular techniques to meet the challenges of environmental pollution
- Comprehensive guidance on overcoming challenges that are frequently encountered during bioremediation studies such as the limitation of molecular approaches and bioaccesibility of pollutants
Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology (MIMB, volume 599)
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Table of contents (16 protocols)
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About this book
Since its first systematic application during the 1970s, bioremediation, or the exploitation of a biological system’s degradative potential to combat toxic pollutants such as heavy metals, polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), cyanides, and radioactive material, has proven itself over time, and the many advances in molecular techniques have only amplified its utility. In Bioremediation: Methods and Protocols, experts in the field explore imaginative and ambitious multidisciplinary techniques that will enable more predictable removal of pollutants from a variety of environments. The easy-to-follow volume addresses some of the broader issues such as the effect of the environment in determining the availability and fate of organic and inorganic compounds and how choices around the most appropriate bioremediation process can be arrived at, as well as detailed complementary techniques that support the effective deployment and monitoring of a bioremediation approach. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology™ series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible protocols, and notes on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.
Authoritative and cutting-edge, Bioremediation: Methods and Protocols offers researchers a series of invaluable techniques certain to enhance their work with environmental contamination.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“Bioremediation is an area with growing importance … and the publication of this book timely. This book provides an array of molecular applications in the fields of bioremediation and microbial ecology. It is both informative and practical, the examples chosen are highly relevant and the protocols clearly written. It is a very useful handbook for microbiologists and environmental professionals with special interests in bioremediation. I also find this book a good source of inspiration for devising projects for our final year undergraduate and postgraduate students.” (Diane Purchase, Microbiology Today, June, 2010)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bioremediation
Book Subtitle: Methods and Protocols
Editors: Stephen P. Cummings
Series Title: Methods in Molecular Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-439-5
Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ
eBook Packages: Springer Protocols
Copyright Information: Humana Press 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-60761-438-8Published: 16 November 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-61779-660-9Published: 09 August 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-60761-439-5Published: 31 October 2009
Series ISSN: 1064-3745
Series E-ISSN: 1940-6029
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 285
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations
Topics: Biotechnology, Pollution, general, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology, Environment, general