1st Edition
Bioavailability Physical, Chemical, and Biological Interactions
Practical and provocative, Bioavailability reviews prevalent understanding of the physical-chemical-biological mechanisms that control the bioavailability of both organic and inorganic contaminants in aquatic environments.
Session 1. Introduction
Jerry L. Hamelink, Peter F. Landrum, Harold L. Bergman, William H. Benson
Session 2. Water Chemistry
Physicochemical Factors Affecting Toxicity in Freshwater: Hardness, pH, and Temperature
Foster L. (Sonny) Mayer, Jr., Leif L. Marking, Terry D. Bills, and George E. Howe
Chemical and Biological Factors Affecting Bioavailability of Contaminants in Seawater
John P. Knezovich
Synopsis of Discussion Session on Physicochemical Factors Affecting Toxicity
Russell Erickson (Chair), Terry D. Bills, James R. Clark, David Hansen, John P. Knezovich, Foster L. Mayer, and Anne E. McElroy
Session 3. Inorganic Toxicants
Ligands and the Bioavailability of Metals in Aquatic Environments
Michael C. Newman and Charles H. Jagoe
Synopsis of Discussion Session on the Bioavailability of Inorganic Contaminants
William H. Benson (Chair), James J. Alberts, Herbert E. Allen, Carlton D. Hunt, and Michael C. Newman
Session 4. Interactions of Organic Pollutants with Inorganic Solid Phases: Are They Important to Bioavailability?
Anne Spacie
Interactions of Organic Chemicals with Particulate and Dissolved Organic Matter in the Aquatic Environment
Frank A.P.C. Gobas and Xin Zhang
Synopsis of Discussion Session: Influences of Particulate and Dissolved Material on the Bioavailability of Organic Compounds
I. H. (Mel) Suffet (Chair), Lisa L. Williams, Chad T. Jafvert, Jussi Kukkonen, Mark R. Servos, Anne Spacie, and James A. Noblet
Session 5. Dynamic Environmental Factors
Photochemical Aspects of Bioavailability
Donald G. Crosby
Effects of Redox Processes on Acid-Producing Potential and Metal Mobility in Sediments
Jihua Hong, Ulrich Förstner, and Wolfgang Calmano
Sediment-Water Exchange Processes
Bjorn Sundby
Synopsis of Discussion Session: The Effects of Variable Redox Potentials, pH, and Light on Bioavailability in Dynamic Water-Sediment Environments
Joseph S. Meyer (Chair), William Davison, Bjorn Sundby, James T. Oris, Darrel J. Laurén, Ulrich Förstner, Jihua Hong, and Donald G. Crosby
Session 6. Kinetic Limitations or Dissolution
Unraveling the Choreography of Containment Kinetics: Approaches to the Quantifying the Uptake of Chemicals by Organisms
Donald Mackay
Physiological and Biochemical Mechanisms that Regulate the Accumulation and Toxicity of Environmental Chemicals in Fish
James M. McKim
Synopsis of Discussion Session on the Kinetics Behind Environmental Bioavailability
Peter F. Landrum (Chair), William L. Hayton, Henry Lee II, Lynn S. McCarty, Donald Mackay, and James M. McKim
Session 7. Closing Remarks
Summary and Conclusions
Kenneth L. Dickson (chair), John P, Giesy, Rodney Parrish, and Lee Wolfe
Index
Biography
Jerry Hamelink, Peter F. Landrum, Harold Bergman, William H. Benson