Environmental Bioassay Techniques and their Application, 1989
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference held in Lancaster, England, 11–14 July 1988
Developments in Hydrobiology Series, Vol. 54

Proceedings of the First International Conference held in Lancaster, England, July 11-14, 1988

1. International Conference on Environmental Bioassay Techniques and their Application: An environmental research and management view.- 2. The scientific basis of bioassays.- 3. Recent developments in and intercomparisons of acute and chronic bioassays and bioindicators?.- 4. The choice and implementation of environmental bioassays.- 5. The application of bioassays in the resolution of environmental problems: past, present and future.- 6. The application of bioassay techniques to water pollution problems - The United Kingdom experience.- 7. The use of environmental assays for impact assessment.- 8. Probing ecosystem health: a multi-disciplinary and multi-trophic assay strategy.- 9. Functional bioassays utilizing zooplankton: a comparison.- 10. A holistic approach to ecosystem health assessment using fish population characteristics.- 11. Environmental impact assessment: the growing importance of science in government decision making.- 12. The role of microbial metal resistance and detoxification mechanisms in environmental bioassay research.- 13. Performances of three bacterial assays in toxicity assessment.- 14. Luminescent bacteria toxicity assay in the study of mercury speciation.- 15. Is the ‘Microbial Loop’ an Early Warning Indicator of Anthropogenic Stress?.- 16. On the accuracy and interpretation of growth curves of planktonic algae.- 17. A bioassay using the measurement of the growth inhibition of a ciliate protozoan Colpidium campylum (Stokes).- 18. The application of algal potential tests (AGP) to the canals and lakes of western Netherlands.- 19. A study of phosphate limitation in Lake Maarsseveen: phosphate uptake kinetics versus bioassays.- 20. Evidence from algal bioassays of seasonal nutrient limitations in two English lakes.- 21. Examination of theeffect of wastewater on the productivity of Lake Zürich water using indigenous phytoplankton batch culture bioassays.- 22. Early warning assays: an overview of toxicity testing with phytoplankton in the North American Great Lakes.- 23. Continuous culture algal bioassays for organic pollutants in aquatic ecosystems.- 24. Round Robin testing with the Selenastrum capricornutum microplate toxicity assay.- 25. Phytoplankton recovery responses at the population and community levels in a hazard and risk assessment study.- 26. Functional response of Fucus vesiculosus communities to tributyltin measured in an in situ continuous flow-through system.- 27. Comparison of five bioassay techniques for assessing sediment-bound contaminants.- 28. Assessing toxicity of Lake Diefenbaker (Saskatchewan, Canada) sediments using algal and nematode bioassays.- 29. Fraser River sediments and waters evaluated by the battery of screening tests technique.- 30. Bioassay responses of micro-organisms to sediment elutriates from the St. Lawrence River (Lake St. Louis).- 31. Metal contamination in sediments and biota of the Bay of Quinte, Lake Ontario, Canada.- 32. Use of aquatic macrophytes as a bioassay method to assess relative toxicity, uptake kinetics and accumulated forms of trace metals.- 33. Bioassays with a floating aquatic plant (Lemna minor) for effects of sprayed and dissolved glyphosate.- 34. Phytomonitoring of pulverized fuel ash leachates by the duckweed Lemna minor.- 35. Sensitive bioassays for determining residues of sulfonylurea herbicides in soil and their availability to crop plants.- 36. Root and shoot elongation as an assessment of heavy metal toxicity and ‘Zn equivalent value’ of edible crops.- 37. Effect of acidity on acute toxicity of aluminium-waste andaluminium-contaminated soil.- 38. Do bioassays adequately predict ecological effects of pollutants?.- 39. The Daphnia bioassay: a critique.- 40. Life-tables of Daphnia obtusa (Kurz), surviving exposure to toxic concentrations of chromium.- 41. Toxicity of the new pyrethroid insecticide, deltamethrin, to Daphnia magna.- 42. Herbicide effects on planktonic systems of different complexity.- 43. A new standardized sediment bioassay protocol using the amphipod Hyalella azteca (Saussure).- 44. The valve movement response of mussels: a tool in biological monitoring.- 45. Physiological background for using freshwater mussels in monitoring copper and lead pollution.- 46. The application of combined tissue residue chemistry and physiological measurements of mussels (Mytilis edulis) for the assessment of environmental pollution.- 47. The biological assessment of contaminated sediments - the Detroit River example.- 48. A method for studying the impact of polluted marine sediments on intertidal colonizing organisms; tests with diesel-based drilling mud and tributyltin antifouling paint.- 49. The effect of heavy metal speciation in sediment on bioavailability to tubificid worms.- 50. Metal accumulation by chironomid larvae: the effects of age and body weight on metal body burdens.- 51. A terrestrial micro-ecosystem for measuring effects of pollutants on isopod-mediated litter decomposition.- 52. Scope for growth in Gammarus pulex, a freshwater benthic detritivore.- 53. Feeding and nutritional considerations in aquatic toxicology.- 54. Hypothesis formulation and testing in aquatic bioassays: a deterministic model approach.- 55. In situ and laboratory studies on the behaviour and survival of Pacific Salmon (genus Oncorhynchus).- 56. Analysis of fish bile with HPLC-fluorescence to determine environmental exposure to benzo(a)pyrene.- 57. The use of sheephead minnow (Cyprinodon variegatus) and a benthic copepod (Tisbe battagliai) in short term tests for estimating the chronic toxicity of industrial effiuents.- 58. Preliminary investigations on the influence of suspended sediments on the bioaccumulation of two chlorobenzenes by the guppy (Poecilia reticulata).- 59. Identification of developmental toxicants using the Frog Embryo Teratogenesis Assay-Xenopus (FETAX).- 60. Cellular and biochemical indicators assessing the quality of a marine environment.- 61. The role and application of environmental bioassay techniques in support of the impact assessment and decision-making under the Ocean Dumping Control Act in Canada.- 62. In-situ bioassessment of dredging and disposal activities in a contaminated ecosystem: Toronto Harbour.- 63. An improved elutriation technique for the bioassessment of sediment contaminants.- 64. Assessing the impact of episodic pollution.- 65. Acute toxicity of industrial and municipal effiuents in the State of Maryland, U.S.A.: results from one year of toxicity testing.- 66. Nitrification rates in the lower river Rhine as a monitor for ecological recovery.- 67. Conditional stability constants and binding capacities for copper (II) by ultrafiltrable material isolated from six surface waters of Wyoming, U.S.A..