Biomonitors and Biomarkers as Indicators of Environmental Change 2: A Handbook (Environmental Science Research, 56)

Monitoring the environment is absolutely essential if we are to identify hazards to human health, to assess environmental cleanup efforts, and to prevent further degradation of the ecosystem. Biomonitors and biomarkers combined with chemical monitoring offer the only approach to making these assessments. Based on an International Association of Great Lakes Research conference, this book is intended for researchers who want to incorporate new and different technologies in their development of specifically-crafted monitors; students who are learning the field of biomonitoring; and regulatory agencies that want to consider newer technologies to replace inadequate and less powerful test regimes. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-8 A Brief Review of Chemical and Biological Continuous Monitoring of Rivers in Europe and Asia....Pages 9-28 The Evaluation of “Dynamic Daphnia Test” After a Decade of Use....Pages 29-58 The “Musselmonitor ® ” as Biological Early Warning System....Pages 59-87 Quantitative Behavior Analysis—a New Approach to the Challenges of Environmental Toxicology....Pages 89-91 An Introduction to Behavioral Monitoring-Effects of Nonylphenol and Ethinylestradiol on Swimming Behavior of Juvenile Carp....Pages 93-112 How to Use Fish Behavior Analysis to Sensitively Assess the Hazard Potentials of Environmental Chemicals....Pages 113-122 Continuous Water Monitoring....Pages 123-141 Restoration and Classification of Water-Borne Microbial Images for Continuous Monitoring of Water Quality....Pages 143-155 Screen-Printed Disposable Biosensors for Environmental Pollution Monitoring....Pages 157-174 Optical Sensors and Biosensors for Environmental Monitoring....Pages 175-199 Recombination as Indicator for Genotoxic and “Non-Genotoxic” Environmental Carcinogens....Pages 201-219 Somatic Mutation and Recombination Test in Drosophila Used for Biomonitoring of Environmental Pollutants....Pages 221-237 A New Way to View Complex Mixtures....Pages 239-255 Drosophila is a Reliable Biomonitor of Water Pollution....Pages 257-299 A New Multispecies Freshwater Biomonitor for Ecologically Relevant Supervision of Surface Waters....Pages 301-316 Cytogenetic and Cytotoxic Damage in Exfoliated Cells as Indicators of Effects in Humans....Pages 317-331 p53 Mutation Load....Pages 333-346 Plant Biomonitors in Aquatic Environments....Pages 347-360 Fish Chromosomes as Biomarkers of Genotoxic Damage and Proposal for the Use of Tropical Catfish Species for Short-Term Screening of Genotoxic Agents....Pages 361-390 The Tetramitus Assay....Pages 391-425 The Use of Aquatic Invertebrate Toxicity Tests and Invertebrate Enzyme Biomarkers to Assess Toxicity in the States of Aguascalientes and Jalisco, Mexico....Pages 427-438 Biomonitoring of Pesticides by Plant Metabolism: An Assay Based on the Induction of Sister-Chromatid Exchanges in Human Lymphocyte Cultures by Promutagen Activation of Vicia faba ....Pages 439-455 Genetic Monitoring of Airborne Particles....Pages 457-486 Abstracts....Pages 487-498 Back Matter....Pages 499-508