Description |
xiii, 492 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Some biological concerns in heavy metals pollution / Michael Waldichuk -- Enzyme responses to metals in fish / Eugene Jackim -- Effects of silver on oxygen consumption of bivalves at various salinities / Frederick P. Thurberg, Anthony Calabrese, and Margaret A. Dawson -- The cycling of zinc in the Newport River estuary, North Carolina / Douglas A. Wolfe -- Methyl mercury and inorganic mercury : uptake, distribution, and effect on osmoregulatory mechanisms in fishes / J. Larry Renfro [and others] -- Adaptation of an estuarine polychaete to sediments containing high concentrations of heavy metals / G.W. Bryan -- Implications of pesticide residues in the coastal environment / Thomas W. Duke and David P. Dumas -- Renal handling of DDA by the southern flounder / John B. Pritchard -- Behavioral effects of dieldrin upon the fiddler crab, Uca pugilator / Marian L. Klein and Jeffrey L. Lincer -- Osmotic and ionic regulation in decapod crustacea exposed to methoxychlor / Richard S. Caldwell -- Effects of organophosphate pesticides on adult oysters (Crassostrea virginica) / M.R. Tripp -- Effects of exposure to a subacute concentration of parathion on the interaction between chemoreception and water flow in fish / H. Kleerekoper -- The sources, fates and effects of oil in the seas / D.G. Ahearn -- Effects of benzene (a water soluble-component of crude oil) on eggs and larvae og Pacific herring and northern anchovy / Jeannette W. Struhsaker, Maxwell B. Eldridge, and Tina Echeverria -- The effects of oil on estuarine animals : toxicity, uptake and depuration, respiration / J.W. Anderson [and others] -- The acute effects of empire mix crude oil on enzymes in oysters, shrimp and mullet / James R. Heintz [and others] -- Hydrocarbons in shellfish chronically exposed to low levels of fuel oil / John J. Stegeman -- The effect of cold seawater extracts of oil fractions upon the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis / A. Dunning and C.W. Major -- Spin-labeling a living tissue : a method for investigating pollutant-host interaction / William T. Roubal -- Multiple environmental factor effects on physiology and behavior of the fiddler crab / Winona B. Vernberg, Patricia J. DeCoursey, and James O'Hara -- Some physiological consequences of polychlorinated biphenyl- and salinity-stress in penaeid shrimp / D.R. Nimmo and L.H. Bahner -- The effect of copper and cadmium on the development of Tigriopus japonicus / Anthony D'Agostino and Colin Finney -- Synergistic effects of three heavy metals on growth rates of a marine ciliate protozoan / John S. Gray |
Notes |
Papers presented at a symposium held in Georgetown, S.C., Nov. 14-17, 1973, and sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine Biology and Coastal Research, University of South Carolina |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
Notes |
Also available in print |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Marine animals -- Physiology -- Congresses.
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Marine animals -- Physiology.
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Marine biology -- Congresses.
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Marine pollution -- Physiological effect -- Congresses.
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Marine pollution -- Physiological effect.
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Water -- Pollution -- Congresses.
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Marine Biology.
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Water Pollution.
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Genre/Form |
Congress.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Author |
Vernberg, F. John, 1925-
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Vernberg, Winona B., 1924-
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United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine Biology and Coastal Research.
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LC no. |
74027490 |
ISBN |
0127182500 |
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