Book Description

ASTM Symposium on Community Toxicity Testing, sponsored by Committee D-19 on Water, was held in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on 6-7 May 1985. Contents - Overview, Evaluation of the Use of Community Similarity Techniques As Applied to Phytoplankton Communities, Some Methods for Measuring Effects of Toxicants on Laboratory and Field-Colonized Estuarine Benthic Communities, Comparison of Estimates of Hazard Derived at Three Levels of Complexity, Community-Level Effects of Coyote Population Reduction, The Sea Urchin:Bioassay for the Assessment Damage from Environmental Contaminants, Preliminary Results of Interlaboratory Testing of a Standardized Aquatic Microsm, A Microcosm Procedure for Determining Safe Levels of Chemical Exposure in Shallow-Water Communities, A Comparison of Mixed Flask Culture and Standardized Laboratory Model Ecosystems for Toxicity Testing, Evaluation of Simple Generic Aquatic Ecosystem Tests to Screen the Ecological Impacts of Pesticides, Population and Guild Analysis for Interpretation of Heavy Metal Pollution in Streams, Impact of Drilling Fluids on Seagrasses: An Experimental Community Approach, A Simple In-Stream Test of Laboratory Findings that NTA Protects Fish and Invertebrates against Copper and Zinc, Effect of 3-Trifluoromethyl-4-Nitrophenol on the Structure and Function of Protozoan Communities Established on Artificial Substrates, Structural and Functional Response of Natural Phytoplankton and Periphyton Communities to a Cationic Surfactant with Considerations on Environmental Fate, Use of Limnocorrals in Evaluating the Effects of Pesticides on Zooplankton Communities, Zooplankton Community Responses to Synthetic Oil Exposure, Production of Coexisting Juvenile Coho Salmon and Steelhead Trout in Heated Model Stream Communities.