Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 223

This book offers concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.

Provides detailed reviews worldwide to key scientists and science or policy administrators Supplies scientific review articles on all aspects of environmental contamination and associated toxicological consequences Facilitates the task of accessing and interpreting cogent scientific data within closely related research fields Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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CONTENTS
Foreword
Preface
Air Contaminant Statistical Distributions with Application to PM10 in Santiago, Chile
Carolina Marchant, Víctor Leiva, M. Fernanda Cavieres, and Antonio Sanhueza
Advances in the Application of Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria in Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals
Hamid Iqbal Tak, Faheem Ahmad and Olubukola Oluranti Babalola
Toxicity Reference Values and Tissue Residue Criteria for Protecting Avian Wildlife Exposed to Methylmercury in China
Ruiqing Zhang, Fengchang Wu, Huixian Li, Guanghui Guo, Chenglian Feng, John P. Giesy and Hong Chang
The Biological Effects and Possible Modes of Action of Nanosilver Carolin Völker, Matthias Oetken, and Jörg Oehlmann
Diazinon: Chemistry and Environmental Fate: A California Perspective
Vaneet Aggarwal, Xin Deng, Atac Tuli, and Kean S. Goh
Index

Inhalt
Preface.- Foreword.- Air Contaminant Distributions with Application to PM10 in Santiago, Chile.- Advances in the Application of Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria in Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals.- Toxicity Reference Values and Tissue Residue Criteria for Protecting Avian Wildlife Exposed to Methylmercury in China.- The Biological Effects and Possible Modes of Action of Nanosilver.- Diazinon: Chemistry and Environmental Fate: A California Perspective.- Index.