Microcosm Manual for Environmental Impact Risk Assessment

This book offers a comprehensive guide to microcosms (N-systems) in multiple-species testing and aquatic ecosystem risk assessment. It provides standardized methods for creating the microbial ecosystem, and proposes a standardized microcosm system for environmental impact risk assessments. The book will be of interest to students and educators, researchers, government authorities, developers and manufacturers engaged in ecosystem preservation, water quality management personnel at sewage treatment or industrial effluent treatment facilities, and anyone involved in education, management and analysis evaluation for environmental standards and waste water quality standards.

Chapter 1. Introduction. - Chapter 2. Standardization of the microcosm N-system. - Chapter 3. Maintenance of microcosm N-system. - Chapter 4. Preparation of The microcosm N-system. - Chapter 5. Procedure for using THE microcosm N-system. Chapter 6. Estimation using microcosm N-system. - Chapter 7. Example assessment of the microcosm n-system. - Chapter 8. Coefficient of assessment FOR THE microcosm n-system. - Chapter 9. Application to whole effluent toxicity (WET) test. - Chapter 10. A Scaled-up model ecosystem verification Of THE microcosm n-system. - Chapter 11. A Subsystem microcosm verification OF THE microcosm n-system. - Chapter 12. Further perspectives.