Research Catalog

Title

Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms : state of the science and research needs / H. Kenneth Hudnell editor.

Publication

New York : Springer, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors

Hudnell, H. Kenneth.

Description

xxiii, 949 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.

Series Statement

Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 619

Uniform Title

Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 619.

Subjects

• Cyanobacteria
• Biomedical Research
• Cyanobacteria > pathogenicity
• Eutrophication

Note

• "All chapters in this book are based on platform sessions or draft workgroup reports that were presented at ISOC-HAB [International Symposium on Cyanobacterial Harmful Algae Blooms]" -- p. xiii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Interagency ISOC-HAB Organizing Committee -- ISOC-HAB Executive Advisory Committee -- Overview -- Ch. 1. An Overview of the Interagency, International Symposium on Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms (ISOC-HAB): Advancing the Scientific Understanding of Freshwater Harmful Algal Blooms -- Ch. 2. A Synopsis of Research Needs Identified at the Interagency, International Symposium on Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms (ISOC-HAB) -- Occurrence Workgroup -- Ch. 3. Occurrence of Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms: Workgroup Report -- Ch. 4. A World Overview-One-Hundred-Twenty-Seven Years of Research on Toxic Cyanobacteria - Where do we go from here? -- Ch. 5. Toxic Cyanobacteria in Florida Waters -- Ch. 6. Nebraska Experience -- Ch. 7. Cyanobacterial Toxins in New York and the Lower Great Lakes Ecosystems -- Ch. 8. Occurrence Workgroup Poster Abstracts -- Delaware's Experience with Cyanobacteria in Freshwater Ponds -- Investigation of Microcystin Concentrations and Possible Microcystin-Producing Organisms in Some Florida Lakes and Fish Ponds -- Potentially Toxic Cyanobacteria in Chesapeake Bay Estuaries and a Virginia Lake -- Expanding Existing Harmful Algal Blooms Surveillance Systems: Canine Sentinel -- Use of Embedded Networked Sensors for the Study of Cyanobacterial Bloom Dynamics -- Bloom and Toxin Occurrence -- Cyanotoxins in the Tidewaters of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay: The Maryland Experience -- Harmful Algal Blooms and Cyanotoxins in Metropolitan Water District's Reservoirs -- Causes, Prevention, and Mitigation Workgroup -- Ch. 9. Causes, Prevention, and Mitigation Workgroup Report -- Ch. 10. Nutrient and Other Environmental Controls of Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms Along the Freshwater-Marine Continuum -- Ch. 11. Global Warming and Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms -- Ch. 12. Watershed Management Strategies to Prevent and Control Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms -- Ch. 13. Cyanobacterial Toxin Removal in Drinking Water Treatment Processes and Recreational Waters -- Ch. 14. Causes, Mitigation, and Prevention Workgroup Posters -- Application of Immobilized Titanium Dioxide Photocatalysis for the Treatment of Microcystin-LR -- Environmental Conditions, Cyanobacteria and Microcystin Concentrations in Potable Water Supply Reservoirs in North Carolina, U.S.A. -- Removal of Microcystins using Portable Water Purification Systems -- Multiple Scenarios for Fisheries to Increase Potentially Toxin Producing Cyanobacteria Populations in Selected Oregon Lakes -- Removal of the Cyanobacterial Toxin Microcystin-LR by Biofiltration -- Water Quality and Cyanobacterial Management in the Ocklawaha Chain-of-Lakes, Florida -- A Shift in Phytoplankton Dominance from Cyanobacteria to Chlorophytes Following Algaecide Applications -- Ultrasonically-Induced Degradation of Microcystin LR and R.R: Identification of by Products and Effect of Environmental Factors -- Cultural Eutrophication of Three Midwest Urban Reservoirs: The Role of Nitrogen Limitation in Determining Phytoplankton Community Structure -- Cyanobacteria in Eutrophied Fresh to Brackish Lakes in Barataria Estuary, Louisiana -- Chemical Characterization of the Algistatic Fraction of Barley Straw (Hordeum Vulgare) Inhibiting Microcystis Aeruginosa -- Invertebrate Herbivores Induce Saxitoxin Production in Lyngbya Wollei -- A Comparison of Cyanotoxin Release Following Bloom Treatments with Copper Sulfate or Sodium Carbonate Peroxyhdrate -- Toxins Workgroup -- Ch. 15. Cyanotoxins Workgroup Report -- Ch. 16. Toxin Types, Toxicokinetics and Toxicodynamics -- Ch. 17. The Genetics and Genomics of Cyanobacterial Toxicity -- Ch. 18. Determining Important Parameters Related to Cyanobacterial Alkaloid Toxin Exposure -- Ch. 19. Toxins Workgroup Poster Abstracts -- Microginin Peptides from Microcystis aeruginosa -- Inactivation of an ABC Transporter, mcyH, Results in Loss of Microcystin Production in the Cyanobacterium Microcystis Aeruginosa PCC 7806 -- Analytical Methods Workgroup -- Ch. 20. Analytical Methods Workgroup Report -- Ch. 21. Cyanotoxins: Sampling, Sample Processing and Toxin Uptake -- Ch. 22. Field Methods in the Study of Toxic Cyanobacterial Blooms: Results and Insights from Lake Erie Research -- Ch. 23. Conventional Laboratory Methods for Cyanotoxins -- Ch. 24. Emerging High Throughput Analyses of Cyanobacterial Toxins and Toxic Cyanobacteria -- Ch. 25. Analytical Methods Workgroup Poster Abstracts -- Early Warning of Actual and Potential Cyanotoxin Production -- Detecting Toxic Cyanobacterial Strains in the Great Lakes, USA -- A Progressive Comparison of Cyanobacterial Populations with Raw and Finished Water Microcystin Levels in Falls Lake Reservoir -- Liquid Chromatography Using Ion-Trap Mass Spectrometry with Wideband Activation for the Determination of Microcystins in Water -- Anatoxin-a Elicits an Increase in Peroxidase and Glutathione S-transferase Activity in Aquatic Plants -- The mis-identification of Anatoxin-a using Mass Spectrometry in the Forensic Investigation of Acute Neurotoxic Poisoning -- Cyanobacterial Toxins and the AOAC Marine and Freshwater Toxins Task Force -- Detection of Toxic Cyanobacteria Using the PDS Biosensor -- Development of Microarrays for Rapid Detection of Toxigenic Cyanobacteria Taxa in Water Supply Reservoirs -- ARS Research on Harmful Algal Blooms in SE USA Aquaculture Impoundments -- Human Health Effects Workgroup -- Ch. 26. Human Health Effects Workgroup Report -- Ch. 27. Health Effects Associated with Controlled Exposures to Cyanobacterial Toxins -- Ch. 28. Cyanobacterial Poisoning in Livestock, Wild Mammals and Birds - An Overview -- Ch. 29. Epidemiology of Cyanobacteria and their Toxins -- Ch. 30. Human Health Effects Workgroup Poster Abstracts -- Serologic Evaluation of Human Microcystin Exposure -- Characterization of Chronic Human Illness Associated with Exposure to Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms Predominated by Microcystis -- Ecosystem Effects Workgroup -- Ch. 31. Ecosystem Effects Workgroup Report -- Ch. 32. Cyanobacterial Toxins: A Qualitative Meta-Analysis of Concentrations, Dosage and Effects in Freshwater, Estuarine and Marine Biota -- Ch. 33. Cyanobacteria Blooms: Effects on Aquatic Ecosystems -- Ch. 34. Ecosystem Effects Workgroup Poster Abstracts -- Local Adaptation of Daphnia Pulicarla to Toxic Cyanobacteria -- Cytotoxicity of Microcystin-LR to Primary Cultures of Channel Catfish Hepatocytes and to the Channel Catfish Ovary Cell Line -- Mortality of Bald Eagles and American Coots in Southeastern Reservoirs Linked to Novel Epiphytic Cyanobacterial Colonies on Invasive Aquatic Plants -- Investigation of a Novel Epiphytic Cyanobacterium Associated with Reservoirs Affected by Avian Vacuolar Myelinopathy -- Risk Assessment Workgroup -- Ch. 35. Risk Assessment Workgroup Report -- Ch. 35. Appendix A: Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis -- Ch. 36. Effective Doses, Guidelines & Regulations -- Ch. 37. Economic Cost of Cyanobacterial Blooms -- Ch. 38. Integrating Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: Application to the Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Bloom Problem -- Ch. 39. Toxin Mixture in Cyanobacterial Blooms - a Critical Comparison of Reality with Current Procedures Employed in Human Health Risk Assessment.

ISBN

• 9780387758640
• 038775864X

OCLC

• ocn181090482
• 181090482
• SCSB-5398929

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries