Freshwater Pollution and Aquatic Ecosystems by Dar, Gowhar Hamid; Hakeem, Khalid Rehman; Mehmood, Mohammad Aneesul;

Rövid leírás:

This new volume addresses the environmental impacts of pollution on freshwater aquatic ecosystems and presents sustainable management and remediation practices and advanced technology help to address the different types of pollutants.

Hosszú leírás:

This new volume addresses the environmental impacts of pollution on freshwater aquatic ecosystems and presents sustainable management and remediation practices and advanced technology help to address the different types of pollutants.

Freshwater Pollution and Aquatic Ecosystems: Environmental Impact and Sustainable Management considers the need for sustainable, efficient, and cost-effective tools and technologies to assess, monitor, and properly manage the increasing issues of aquatic pollution. It provides detailed accounts of the phenomena and mechanisms related to aquatic pollution and highlights the problems and threats associated with pollution contamination in freshwater. It provides useful insight into the sustainable and advanced pollution remediation technology adopted by different countries for the monitoring, assessment, and sustainable management of pollution.

The chapters in the volume evaluate the sources of harmful pollutants, which include industrial effluents, sewage, and runoff from agricultural industries, which result in toxic microbes, organic waste, oils, and high load of nutrients. Unsustainable management practices of domestic sewage and indiscriminate use of chemical pesticides lead to the technological disturbance of aquatic biota. In addition to harming aquatic biota, these pollutants find their way into the human body through inhalation, ingestion, or absorption and finally tend to bio-accumulate in trophic levels of the food chain, which poses a major risk to human beings.

This book will be a valuable resource for ecologists, environmentalists, scientists, and many others for their work in understanding and management of aquatic pollutants in freshwater biospheres.

Tartalomjegyzék:

1. Water Pollution: Diseases and Health Impacts 2. Toxicity of Heavy Metals in Freshwater Fishes: Challenges and Concerns 3. Chlorpyrifos Toxicity in Fishes: A Perspective 4. Neurotoxicity of Heavy Metals in Fishes: A Mechanistic Approach 5. Mechanism of Toxicity in Aquatic Life 6. Pesticide Pollution in an Aquatic Environment 7. Benthic Macroinvertebrates as Bioindicators of Water Quality in Freshwater Bodies 8. Biomonitoring and Bioindicators 9. Zooplankton Community: A Valuable Bio-Indicator Tool in Disturbed Wetlands 10. Mycoremediation of Pollutants in Aquatic Environs 11. Genetically Modified Organisms as Tools for Water Bioremediation 12. Bio-Indicator Species and Their Role in Monitoring Water Pollution