The first edition of Bioanalytical Tools in Water Quality Assessment was released in 2012.
The field has exploded since and the second edition updates and reviews the application of …

Wastewater discharges from cities and industries, especially megacities, and intensive
livestock can be considered as main sources of pollution of our rivers and groundwater …

This guidebook, now thoroughly updated and revised in its second edition, gives
comprehensive advice on the designing and setting up of monitoring programmes for the …

Regulatory agencies in recent decades have paid increasing attention to assessment of
toxic contamination of the environment, in particular the aquatic ecosystem. The evaluation …

Bioassays are particularly useful tools to link the chemical and ecological assessments in
water quality monitoring. Different methods cover a broad range of toxicity mechanisms in …

Until now, water quality monitoring has relied heavily on spot sampling followed by
instrumental analytical measurements to determine pollutant concentrations. Despite a …

During the last three decades, numerous biological techniques have been developed as
qualitative analytical methods to assess the effects of chemical pollutants on the …

There is a wide range of microorganisms of interest in water quality testing. Here we
describe the general suite of methods currently used for the major indicator organisms and …

In aquaculture industry, fish, shellfish, and aquatic plants are cultivated in fresh, salt, or
brackish waters. The increasing demand of aquatic products has stimulated the rapid growth …

ABSTRACT A plethora of in vitro bioassays are developed in the context of chemical risk
assessment and clinical diagnostics to test effects on different biological processes. Such …