Pesticide Impact on Stream Fauna

With Special Reference to Macroinvertebrates

By: R. C. Muirhead-Thomson, Muirhead-Thomson R. C.

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The problem of pesticide contamination of running waters is one of concern in many different fields of human activity. A critical experimental approach is essential in trying to understand how individual stream fauna react and how integrated aquatic communities respond to these toxic chemicals, both over short periods and in the long term. This book, first published in 1987, deals with three aspects of pesticide contamination. First the origins of the pollutants are considered. Secondly, there follows a consideration of laboratory evaluation techniques, and thirdly, the final section of the book looks in detail at a selection of case studies in which the effects on streams of widely used pesticides are analysed. The account will be of value to freshwater biologists generally but especially to those directly involved in work with pesticides, freshwater fisheries and public health.

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Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction and Origin of Pesticides in Running Waters
Introduction
Origins of pesticides in running waters
The Role of Laboratory and Experimental Methods in Evaluation
Laboratory evaluation techniques
Artificial community streams and channels in situ
Invertebrate reaction to pesticides under laboratory and experimental conditions
Evaluation in Pest Control Projects
Introduction to field sampling of aquatic macroinvertebrates in streams and rivers
Impact of insecticides used in control of the spruce budworm
Aquatic environmental effects of insecticides used in tsetse fly control
Effect on non-targets of larvicides applied to running waters for control of blackfly (Simulium) larvae
Impact of piscicides (and molluscicides)
Herbicides and aquatic invertebrates
Summary and assessment
References
Index
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Pesticide Impact on Stream Fauna

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