Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 223 (Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 223)

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications. CONTENTS Foreword Preface Air Contaminant Statistical Distributions with Application to PM10 in Santiago, Chile Carolina Marchant, Víctor Leiva, M. Fernanda Cavieres, and Antonio Sanhueza Advances in the Application of Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria in Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals Hamid Iqbal Tak, Faheem Ahmad and Olubukola Oluranti Babalola Toxicity Reference Values and Tissue Residue Criteria for Protecting Avian Wildlife Exposed to Methylmercury in China Ruiqing Zhang, Fengchang Wu, Huixian Li, Guanghui Guo, Chenglian Feng, John P. Giesy and Hong Chang The Biological Effects and Possible Modes of Action of Nanosilver Carolin Völker, Matthias Oetken, and Jörg Oehlmann Diazinon: Chemistry and Environmental Fate: A California Perspective Vaneet Aggarwal, Xin Deng, Atac Tuli, and Kean S. Goh Index Front Matter....Pages i-ix Air Contaminant Statistical Distributions with Application to PM10 in Santiago, Chile....Pages 1-31 Advances in the Application of Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria in Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals....Pages 33-52 Toxicity Reference Values and Tissue Residue Criteria for Protecting Avian Wildlife Exposed to Methylmercury in China....Pages 53-80 The Biological Effects and Possible Modes of Action of Nanosilver....Pages 81-106 Diazinon—Chemistry and Environmental Fate: A California Perspective....Pages 107-140 Diazinon—Chemistry and Environmental Fate: A California Perspective....Pages E1-E1 Back Matter....Pages 141-147 This series attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications