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Laboratory and Field Approaches to Environmental Effects Monitoring with Emphasis on Some Microbial-Heavy Metal Relations

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Trace Element Speciation in Surface Waters and Its Ecological Implications

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Over the past 30 years an increasingly rigid rationale has evolved concerning what constitutes acceptable environmental impacts from the release of society’s wastes. This trend, particularly pronounced with regard to the oceans, has in turn generated an unfulfilled demand for more discerning effects monitoring to disclose prevailing levels of environmental stress. The perplexing shortfall regarding environmental effects monitoring is somewhat analogous to that of an employee paid to rid a certain section of beach of cans, bottles and other debris only to be abruptly confronted with the additional task of counting all brown sand particles.

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    Ralph F. Vaccaro

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Vaccaro, R.F. (1983). Laboratory and Field Approaches to Environmental Effects Monitoring with Emphasis on Some Microbial-Heavy Metal Relations. In: Leppard, G.G. (eds) Trace Element Speciation in Surface Waters and Its Ecological Implications. NATO Conference Series, vol 6. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8234-8_17

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