书目名称 | Strategies and Advanced Techniques for Marine Pollution Studies | 副标题 | Mediterranean Sea | 编辑 | C. S. Giam,H. J.-M. Dou | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Nato ASI Subseries G: | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | A distinction between contamination and pollution is useful when we wish to consider what strategies to adopt in researching the impact of anthropogenic activities on the marine environment. Contamination strictly refers to the chemical burden imposed on the system and is evaluated in terms of the concentrations of chemical compounds in various abiotic (e. g water, suspended particulate matter, sediments) and biotic (plant and animal, pelagic and benthic) components. The concept of pollution, on the other hand, infers an assessment of biological response to the measured levels of contamination. This response may be measured at various levels of biological organisation, from molecular events within the cell to changes in such ecosystem properties as nutrient flux and biological productivity. Such measures of biological response need not infer any value judgements regarding putative damage or disturbance to the natural systems, although the biologist will usually have in mind a reference point of normality with which to compare the measured response; departure from this "normality" may then provide a quantitiative index of disturbance. The challenge to scientists engaged in research | 出版日期 | Conference proceedings 1986 | 关键词 | ecosystem; environment; marine; pollution; water; ecotoxicology; water quality and water pollution | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70871-8 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-642-70873-2 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-642-70871-8Series ISSN 0258-1256 | issn_series | 0258-1256 | copyright | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1986 |
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