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In Climate Change and Marine and Freshwater Toxins the editors have assembled contributions from a team of international experts to expand the framework for an appropriate assessment of climate change impacts on aquatic toxins. While the production of toxins by microalgae has been known for decades,...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ;Boston : |
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[2015] ©2015 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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In Climate Change and Marine and Freshwater Toxins the editors have assembled contributions from a team of international experts to expand the framework for an appropriate assessment of climate change impacts on aquatic toxins. While the production of toxins by microalgae has been known for decades, establishing a factual link supported by scientific evidence is a very complex endeavor. The increasing frequency and distribution of toxic blooms for example continue to raise serious concerns regarding seafood and drinking water safety. This book compiles current evidence on the influence of climate change on the spreading of toxin producing species in aquatic systems. The chemistry and biology of toxin production is revised and an outlook on control and prevention of the toxin's impact on human and animal health is given. Compelling quantitative evidence of complex interactions from primary toxin producers and along the food chain. Latest advances on prediction and prevention of water toxin threats to human and animal health. A must read for insights into aquatic toxins and their modification by climatic conditions. About the Editors Luis M. Botana Is a full Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Santiago, from 2004-2012 director of the Department of Pharmacology and former Fogarty Fellow at the School of Medicine of the Johns Hopkins University. He has been director of the European Reference Laboratory for Marine Toxins from 2004 to 2009. He is author of 25 international patents, over 300 scientific papers and editor of 10 international books. M. Carmen LouzaoIs a Professor of Pharmacology at t |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (508 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783110333596 |
| Index Number: | QP632 |
| CLC: | R99 |
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of contributing authors -- 1. Variability and trends of global sea ice cover and sea level: effects on physicochemical parameters -- 2. New techniques in environment monitoring -- 3. Responses of marine animals to ocean acidification -- 4. Alexandrium spp.: genetic and ecological factors influencing saxitoxin production and proliferation -- 5. Potential effects of climate change on cyanobacterial toxin production -- 6. Harmful marine algal blooms and climate change: progress on a formidable predictive challenge -- 7. Global warming, climate patterns and toxic cyanobacteria -- 8. Human impact in Mediterranean coastal ecosystems and climate change: emerging toxins -- 9. Gambierdiscus, the cause of ciguatera fish poisoning: an increased human health threat influenced by climate change -- 10. Control and management of Harmful Algal Blooms -- 11. Global climate change profile and its possible effects on the reproductive cycle, sex expression and sex change of shellfish as marine toxins vectors -- 12. Effects on world food production and security -- 13. From science to policy: dynamic adaptation of legal regulations on aquatic biotoxins -- Index |