Publisher's Synopsis
This book illustrates the relevance of water pollution to public welfare and general ecology. It imparts up-to-date information on methods of investigating water pollution problems, and will assist the reader to plan and carry out his own studies.;The text opens with two case studies which illustrate the scope of the biological problems posed by water pollution, and offers some very different approaches to their solution. Although the book's main concern is the effects of pollution on the aquatic biota, a wider perspective on related areas of interest to biologists is incorporated in chapters on water pollution and public health, and on water pollution control. It also discusses the special problems of marine and estuarine pollution, particularly in relation to the validity of applying techniques and concepts derived form freshwater studies. It describes, with examples, the rationale and methodology of biological surveillance, and discusses methods of toxicological investigation and the biological significance of lethal and sub-lethal toxicity.
