Plants for Environmental Studies

by Wang; Wuncheng (Woodr

• ISBN13: 9781566700283
• ISBN10: 1566700280
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-05-30
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

One of the problems of using plants in environmental studies is finding current information. Because plants play a key role in environmental studies, from the greenhouse effect to environmental toxicological studies, information is widely scattered over many different fields and in many different sources. Plants for Environmental Studies solves that problem with a single, comprehensive source of information on the many ways plants are used in environmental studies.Written by experts from around the world and edited by a team of prominent environmental specialists, this book is the only source of complete information on environmental impacts, mutation, statistical analyses, relationships between plants and water, algae, plants in ecological risk assessment, compound accumulations, and more. Encompassing algae and vascular plants in both aquatic and terrestrial environments, this book contains a diverse collection of laboratory and in situ studies, methods, and procedures using plants to evaluate air, water, wastewater, sediment, and soil.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The effects of ultraviolet-B radiation on higher plants	1	(36)
Bruce M. Greenberg
Michael I. Wilson
Xiao-Dong Huang
Cheryl L. Duxbury
Karen E. Gerhardt
Robert W. Gensemer
Chapter 2 Radiation effects on plants	37	(44)
Robert W. Holst
David J. Nagel
Chapter 3 Plant-water interactions	81	(24)
Jerry L. Hatfield
Chapter 4 Plant activation of environmental agents: the utility of the plant cell/microbe coincubation assay	105	(22)
Michael J. Plewa
Kwang-Young Seo
Young-Hwa Ju
Shannon R. Smith
Elizabeth D. Wagner
Chapter 5 Statistical methods in plant environmental studies	127	(14)
Merrilee Ritter
Chapter 6 Water quality and aquatic plants	141	(36)
Michael A. Lewis
Wuncheng Wang
Chapter 7 Algal indicators of aquatic ecosystem condition and change	177	(32)
Paul V. McCormick
John Cairns, Jr.
Chapter 8 Photosynthetic electron transport as a bioassay	209	(16)
Joanna Gemel
Beth Waters-Earhart
Mark R. Ellersieck
Amha Asfaw
Gary F. Krause
Vivek Puri
William R. Lower
Chapter 9 Laboratory bioassays with microalgae	225	(52)
Niels Nyholm
Hans G. Peterson
Chapter 10 Aquatic plant communities for impact monitoring and assessment	277	(30)
Brian H. Hill
Chapter 11 Allium test for screening chemicals; evaluation of cytological parameters	307	(28)
Geirid Fiskesjo
Chapter 12 The use of vascular plants as "field" biomonitors	335	(32)
Rebecca L. Powell
Chapter 13 Metal accumulation by aquatic macrophytes	367	(50)
Wuncheng Wang
Michael A. Lewis
Chapter 14 Bioaccumulation of xenobiotic organic chemicals by terrestrial plants	417	(34)
Otto J. Schwarz
Lawrence W. Jones
Chapter 15 Uptake of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by vegetation: a review of experimental methods	451	(30)
Todd A. Anderson
Anne M. Hoylman
Nelson T. Edwards
Barbara T. Walton
Chapter 16 Plant uptake and metabolism of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)	481	(34)
Ravi K. Puri
Ye Qiuping
Shubender Kapila
William R. Lower
Vivek Puri
Chapter 17 Selection of phytotoxicity tests for use in ecological risk assessments	515	(34)
Lawrence A. Kapustka
Index	549