Small-scale Freshwater Toxicity Investigations : Toxicity Test Methods / edited by Christian Blaise, Jean-François Férard.

Springer eBooks

Overview of Contemporary Toxicity Testing -- Toxicity test methods -- Microtox® Acute Toxicity Test -- Solid-Phase Test for Sediment Toxicity Using the Luminescent Bacterium, Vibrio Fischeri -- Algal Microplate Toxicity Test -- Algal Toxicity Test -- Microalgal Toxicity Tests Using Flow Cytometry -- Algal Microplate Toxicity Test Suitable for Heavy Metals -- Lemna Minor Growth Inhibition Test -- Spirotox Test — Spirostomum Ambiguum Acute Toxicity Test -- Rotifer Ingestion Test for Rapid Assessment of Toxicity -- Acute and Chronic Toxicity Testing with Daphnia Sp. -- Hydra Population Reproduction Toxicity Test Method -- Amphipod (Hyalella Azteca) Solid-Phase Toxicity Test Using High Water-Sediment Ratios -- Chironomus Riparius Solid-Phase Assay -- Acute Toxicity Assessment of Liquid Samples with Primary Cultures of Rainbow Trout Hepatocytes -- Rainbow Trout Gill Cell Line Microplate Cytotoxicity Test.

While toxicity testing procedures and hazard assessment approaches have been published in past decades, many are wanting in detail for users to fully understand or reproduce successfully. Small-scale freshwater toxicity investigations (Volumes 1 and 2) responds to this need by providing comprehensive information on biological testing which is normally scattered and difficult to find. In Volume 1, 15 chapters on toxicity tests are described in great detail by way of a homogeneous structure that all contributors had to follow. These comprehensive texts allow readers to be informed of relevant information (background, theory, practice) linked to each bioassay. Hence, book contents can be used both for technology transfer purposes (e.g., classroom or workshop courses) and to undertake practical toxicity testing (e.g., in a private, public or university laboratory).

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