Trends in Levels and Effects of Persistent Toxic Substances in the Great Lakes | Articles from the Workshop on Environmental Results, hosted in Windsor, Ontario, by the Great Lakes Science Advisory Board of the International Joint Commission,

Michael Gilbertson (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 9401062277 / ISBN 13: 9789401062275

Verlag: Springer Netherland, 2012

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Trends in Levels and Effects of Persistent Toxic Substances in the Great Lakes | Articles from the Workshop on Environmental Results, hosted in Windsor, Ontario, by the Great Lakes Science Advisory Board of the International Joint Commission, | Michael Gilbertson (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2012 | Springer Netherland | EAN 9789401062275 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Netherlands, Haberstr. 7, 69126 Heidelberg, buchhandel-buch[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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• Titel: Trends in Levels and Effects of Persistent Toxic Substances in the Great Lakes | Articles from the Workshop on Environmental Results, hosted in Windsor, Ontario, by the Great Lakes Science Advisory Board of the International Joint Commission,
• Verlag: Springer Netherland
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 9401062277
• ISBN-13: 9789401062275
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 240B x 160 H x 15 T Millimeter Breite: 240 mm, Höhe: 160 mm, Tiefe: 15 mm
• Gewicht: 434 Gramm
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`Are the Great Lakes getting better or worse?' This is the question that the public, scientists and managers are asking the International Joint Commission after a quarter-century of cooperative action by the United States and Canadian governments to clean up the Great Lakes. This volume contains papers from the workshop on Environmental Results, hosted in Windsor, Ontario, by the Great Lakes Science Advisory Board of the International Joint Commission, on September 12 and 13, 1996. The Great Lakes have been through almost a century of severe pollution from the manufacture, use and disposal of chemicals. In the 1960s wildlife biologists started to investigate the outbreaks of reproductive failure in fish-eating birds and ranch mink and to link these to exposure to organochlorine compounds. Human health researchers in the 1980s and 1990s linked growth retardation, behavioral anomalies and deficits in cognitive development with maternal consumption of Great Lakes fish prior to pregnancy. The Great Lakes became the laboratory where the theory of endocrine disruptors was first formulated. Now a group of Great Lakes scientists, hosted by the International Joint Commission, has compiled the story of the trends in the concentrations and effects of persistent toxic substances on wildlife and humans. The technical papers review the suitability of various organisms as indicators, and present the results of long-term monitoring of the concentrations and of the incidence of effects. The evidence shows that there was an enormous improvement in the late 1970s, but that in the late 1990s there are still concentrations of some persistent toxic substances that have stubbornly remained at levels that continue to cause toxicological effects.