Overview
Provides and up-to-date report on major sources of aquatic pollution
Highlights the effects of pollutants on many forms of aquatic life
Offers mitigating strategies to avoid pollution hazards for organisms and ecosystems
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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About this book
This book provides examples of pollutants, such as accidental oil spills and non-degradable plastic debris, which affect marine organisms of all taxa. Terrestrial runoff washes large amounts of dissolved organic materials from agriculture and industry, toxic heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, and persistent organic pollutants which end up into rivers, coastal habitats, and open waters. While this book is not intended to encyclopaedically list all kinds of pollution, it rather exemplifies the problems by concentrating on a number of serious and prominent recent developments. The chapters in this book also discuss measures to decrease and remove aquatic pollution to mitigate the stress on aquatic organisms.
Aquatic ecosystems provide a wide range of ecological and economical services. In addition to providing a large share of the staple diet for a fast growing human population, oceans absorb most of the anthropogenically emitted carbon dioxide and mitigate climate change.
As well as rising temperatures and ocean acidification, pollution poses increasing problems for aquatic ecosystems and organisms reducing its functioning and services which are exposed to a plethora of stress factors.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Anthropogenic Pollution of Aquatic Ecosystems
Editors: Donat-P. Häder, E. Walter Helbling, Virginia E. Villafañe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75602-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75601-7Published: 02 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75604-8Published: 19 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-75602-4Published: 30 September 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 426
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 58 illustrations in colour
Topics: Pollution, general, Ecosystems, Ecology, Environment, general, Life Sciences, general