Plants for Environmental Studies

Wuncheng Wang, Joseph W. Gorsuch, Jane Hughes , Jane Hughes

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CRC Press Inc
30 May 1997

Botany & plant sciences; Environmental science, engineering & technology

A complete state-of-the-art resource on plants used in environmental studies. Plants for Environmental Studies is a single, comprehensive source of information on the many ways plants are used in environmental studies. Written by experts from around the world and edited by a team of prominent environmental specialists, this book is the only source of complete information on environmental impacts, mutation, statistical analyses, relationships between plants and water, algae, plants in ecological risk assessment, compound accumulations, and more. This book contains a diverse collection of laboratory and in situ studies, methods, and procedures using plants to evaluate air, water, wastewater, sediment, and soil.

By: Jane Hughes, Joseph W. Gorsuch
Edited by: Wuncheng Wang, Joseph W. Gorsuch, Jane Hughes
Imprint: CRC Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 1.200kg
ISBN: 9781566700283
ISBN 10: 1566700280
Pages: 576
Publication Date: 30 May 1997
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Wuncheng (Woodrow) Wang is a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Before 1991, he was a principal scientist with the Illinois State Water Survey in Peoria, IL. He has been chairing two Joint Task Groups (Lemna and marsh plants) of the Standard Methods Committee since 1987 and chaired the First ASTM Symposium on Use of Plants for Toxicity Assessment in 1989. His interest is the use of plants for water quality assessment. Joseph (Joe) W. Gorsuch is Director of Silver Issues with Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY. For the 22 years prior to April 1, 1996, he was Group Leader and Senior Environmental Toxicologist at Kodak. He chaired the ASTM E47.11 Subcommittee on Plant Toxicology from 1992 to 1995, chaired the Second ASTM Symposium on Use of Plants for Toxicity Assessment in 1990, and co-chaired the First ASTM Symposium in 1989. He is interested in using plants to evaluate sludge application practices. Jane S. Hughes is the founder and president of Carolina Ecotox, Inc., a contract environmental toxicology testing laboratory in Durham, NC. She has nearly 20 years of experience conducting and supervising aquatic toxicity testing with a variety of plants and animals to meet diverse regulatory requirements. Her specialty is aquatic plant toxicity testing, and she has chaired methods development activities relating to algae, duckweed, and aquatic macrophytes in ASTM’s Committee E-47 on Biological Effects and Environmental Fate. She also served as co-chair and chair for the First and Third ASTM Symposia on Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment.

Reviews for Plants for Environmental Studies

"""A broad overview of the use of aquatic and terrestrial environment vascular plants and of algae in environmental studies is provided by this comprehensive, data-rich, advanced-level book."" -Environmental Science & Technology ""This book constitutes a rare, comprehensive source on using plants for environmental studies and monitoring... A benchmark work, useful for upper-division undergraduates through research scientists."" -Choice ""...well edited and supplied with a detailed index. I can recommend it as an excellent comprehensive source of information on the many ways how plants are used in environmental studies.""-Photosynthetica"