BIOCHEMICAL ECOLOGY OF WATER POLLUTION
An inter-disciplinary approach to water pollution
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New York
Plenum Press
1972
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. The water pollution problem. Significance of pollution
- Pollutional concerns, causes, and concepts. Disease production ; Organic pollutants ; Mineral pollutants ; Pollution by recalcitrant molecules ; Heat pollution
- Water in perspective to population and pollution. Hydrologic cycle, water availability, and use ; Population growth and its by-products
- Part II. Biochemical considerations. Biochemical aspects of water pollution ; Ecological concepts. Symbiosis
- Water, its properties, biochemistry, and biological implications. Water chemistry ; Bound water ; Biological implications of bound water ; Solutions, suspensions, and colloids ; Surfaces and adsorption
- Degradation of organic pollutants. Hydrolysis of polysaccharides ; Hydrolysis of proteins ; Hydrolysis of fats ; Carbohydrate dissimilation ; Amino acid dissimilation ; Oxidation of fatty acids and alcohols
- Hydrocarbon oxidation. General aspects ; n-alkanes ; Alkenes ; Cycloalkanes ; Aromatics ; Methand, ethane, and methanol oxidation
- Recalcitrant molecules. Isoalkanes ; Synthetic anionic detergents ; Hydrocarbon derivatives
- Cycling of nutrients. Cycling of oxygen, hydrogen, and phosphorus ; Cycling of carbon ; Cycling of nitrogen ; Cycling of sulfur
- Part III. Major ecological problems. Biochemistry of acid mine drainage. Production of acid. The role of the thiobacillus-ferrobacillus group of bacteria in the formation of acid mine drainage ; Mechanism of action of the microbiological production of acid from reduced iron and sulfur compounds ; Consideration of mechanisms of pyrite oxidation ; Biological means of treatment and abatement
- Pollution and accelerated eutrophication of lakes. Lake sediment formation.
Biochemical ecology of water pollution