Environmental Bioassay Techniques and their Application: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference held in Lancaster, England, 11–14 July 1988

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
International Conference on Environmental Bioassay Techniques and their Application....Pages 1-3
The scientific basis of bioassays....Pages 5-20
Recent developments in and intercomparisons of acute and chronic bioassays and bioindicators....Pages 21-60
The choice and implementation of environmental bioassays....Pages 61-64
The application of bioassays in the resolution of environmental problems; past, present and future....Pages 65-76
The application of bioassay techniques to water pollution problems — The United Kingdom experience....Pages 77-86
The use of environmental assays for impact assessment....Pages 87-91
Probing ecosystem health: a multi-disciplinary and multi-trophic assay strategy....Pages 93-115
Functional bioassays utilizing zooplankton: a comparison....Pages 117-121
A holistic approach to ecosystem health assessment using fish population characteristics....Pages 123-135
Environmental impact assessment: the growing importance of science in government decision making....Pages 137-142
The role of microbial metal resistance and detoxification mechanisms in environmental bioassay research....Pages 143-147
Performances of three bacterial assays in toxicity assessment....Pages 149-153
Luminescent bacteria toxicity assay in the study of mercury speciation....Pages 155-162
Is the ‘microbial loop’ an early warning indicator of anthropogenic stress?....Pages 163-174
On the accuracy and interpretation of growth curves of planktonic algae....Pages 175-179
A bioassay using the measurement of the growth inhibition of a ciliate protozoan: Colpidium campylum Stokes....Pages 181-188
The application of algal growth potential tests ( AGP ) to the canals and lakes of western Netherlands....Pages 189-199
A study of phosphate limitation in Lake Maarsseveen: phosphate uptake kinetics versus bioassays....Pages 201-209
Evidence from algal bioassays of seasonal nutrient limitations in two English lakes....Pages 211-228
Examination of the effect of wastewater on the productivity of Lake Zürich water using indigenous phytoplankton batch culture bioassays....Pages 229-235
Early warning assays: an overview of toxicity testing with phytoplankton in the North American Great Lake....Pages 237-246
Continuous culture algal bioassays for organic pollutants in aquatic ecosystems....Pages 247-258
Round Robin testing with the Selenastrum capricornutum microplate toxicity assay....Pages 259-268
Phytoplankton recovery responses at the population and community levels in a hazard and risk assessment study....Pages 269-276
Functional response of Fucus vesiculosus communities to tributyltin measured in an in situ continuous flow-through system....Pages 277-283
Comparison of five bioassay techniques for assessing sediment-bound contaminants....Pages 285-289
Assessing toxicity of Lake Diefenbaker (Saskatchewan, Canada) sediments using algal and nematode bioassays....Pages 291-300
Fraser river sediments and waters evaluated by the battery of screening tests technique....Pages 301-315
Bioassay responses of micro-organisms to sediment elutriates from the St. Lawrence River (Lake St. Louis)....Pages 317-335
Metal contamination in sediments and biota of the Bay of Quinte, Lake Ontario, Canada....Pages 337-343
Use of aquatic macrophytes as a bioassay method to assess relative toxicity, uptake kinetics and accumulated forms of trace metals....Pages 345-351
Bioassays with a floating aquatic plant ( Lemna minor ) for effects of sprayed and dissolved glyphosate....Pages 353-359
Phytomonitoring of pulverized fuel ash leachates by the duckweed Lemna minor ....Pages 361-366
Sensitive bioassays for determining residues of sulfonylurea herbicides in soil and their availability to crop plants....Pages 367-375
Root and shoot elongation as an assessment of heavy metal toxicity and ‘Zn Equivalent Value’ of edible crops....Pages 377-383
Effects of acidity on acute toxicity of aluminium-waste and aluminium-contaminated soil....Pages 385-395
Do bioassays adequately predict ecological effects of pollutants?....Pages 397-402
The Daphnia bioassay: a critique....Pages 403-406
Life-tables of Daphnia obtusa (Kurz) surviving exposure to toxic concentrations of chromium....Pages 407-410
Toxicity of the new pyrethroid insecticide, deltamethrin, to Daphnia magna ....Pages 411-413
Herbicide effects on planktonic systems of different complexity....Pages 415-424
A new standardized sediment bioassay protocol using the amphipod Hyalella azteca (Saussure)....Pages 425-431
The valve movement response of mussels: a tool in biological monitoring....Pages 433-443
Physiological background for using freshwater mussels in monitoring copper and lead pollution....Pages 445-453
The application of combined tissue residue chemistry and physiological measurements of mussels ( Mytilus edulis ) for the assessment of environmental pollution....Pages 455-461
The biological assessment of contaminated sediments — the Detroit River example....Pages 463-476
A method for studying the impact of polluted marine sediments on intertidal colonising organisms; tests with diesel-based drilling mud and tributyltin antifouling paint....Pages 477-485
The effect of heavy metal speciation in sediment on bioavailability to tubificid worms....Pages 487-496
Metal accumulation by chironomid larvae: the effects of age and body weight on metal body burdens....Pages 497-506
A terrestrial micro-ecosystem for measuring effects of pollutants on isopod-mediated litter decomposition....Pages 507-516
Scope for growth in Gammarus pulex , a freshwater benthic detritivore....Pages 517-523
Feeding and nutritional considerations in aquatic toxicology....Pages 525-531
Hypothesis formulation and testing in aquatic bioassays: a deterministic model approach....Pages 533-542
 In situ and laboratory studies on the behaviour and survival of Pacific salmon (genus Oncorhynchus )....Pages 543-560
Analysis of fish bile with HPLC — fluorescence to determine environmental exposure to benzo(a)pyrene....Pages 561-566
The use of sheepshead minnow ( Cyprinodon variegatus ) and a benthic copepod ( Tisbe battagliai ) in short-term tests for estimating the chronic toxicity of industrial effluents....Pages 567-572
Preliminary investigations on the influence of suspended sediments on the bioaccumulation of two chlorobenzenes by the guppy ( Poecilia reticulata )....Pages 573-576
Identification of developmental toxicants using the Frog Embryo Teratogenesis Assay- Xenopus (FETAX)....Pages 577-585
Cellular and biochemical indicators assessing the quality of a marine environment....Pages 587-594
The role and application of environmental bioassay techniques in support of the impact assessment and decision-making under the Ocean Dumping Control Act in Canada....Pages 595-600
 In situ bioassessment of dredging and disposal activities in a contaminated ecosystem: Toronto Harbour....Pages 601-618
An improved elutriation technique for the bioassessment of sediment contaminants....Pages 619-631
Assessing the impact of episodic pollution....Pages 633-640
Acute toxicity of industrial and municipal effluents in the state of Maryland, USA: results from one year of toxicity testing....Pages 641-648
Nitrification rates in the lower river Rhine as a monitor for ecological recovery....Pages 649-658
Conditional stability constants and binding capacities for copper (II) by ultrafilterable material isolated from six surface waters of Wyoming, USA....Pages 659-680