Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 223 [Paperback]

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.This book offers concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.Preface.- Foreword.- Air Contaminant Distributions with Application to PM10 in Santiago, Chile.- Advances in the Application of Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria in Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals.- Toxicity Reference Values and Tissue Residue Criteria for Protecting Avian Wildlife Exposed to Methylmercury in China.- The Biological Effects and Possible Modes of Action of Nanosilver.- Diazinon: Chemistry and Environmental Fate: A California Perspective.- Index.

CONTENTS
Foreword
Preface
Air Contaminant Statistical Distributions with Application to PM10 in Santiago, Chile
Carolina Marchant, V?ctor Leiva, M. Fernanda Cavieres, and Antonio Sanhueza
Advances in the Application of Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria in Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals
Hamid Iqbal Tak, Faheem Ahmad and Olubukola Oluranti Babalola
Toxicity Reference Values and Tissue Residue Criteria for Protecting Avian Wildlife Exposed to Methylmercury in China
Ruiqing Zhang, Fengchang Wu, Huixian Li, Guanghui Guo, Chenglian Feng, John P. Giesy and Hong Chang
The Biological Effects and Possible Modes of Action of Nanosilver Carolin V?lker, Matthias Oetken, and J?rg Oehlmann
Diazinon: Chemistry and Environmental Fate: A California Perspective
Vaneet Aggarwal, Xin Deng, Atac Tuli, and KeanlsĒ