Biomonitors and Biomarkers as Indicators of Environmental Change Book

1	Introduction to Biomonitors and Biomarkers as Indicators of Environmental Change	1
2	Assessing Ecological Risks in Terrestrial Systems with Honey Bees	9
3	Aquatic Insects as Biomonitors of Ecosystem Health in the Great Lakes Areas of Concern	31
4	Larvae of Chironomidae (Diptera) as Indicators of Sediment Toxicity and Genotoxicity	45
5	Integrating a River Basin: Toward a Systems Approach to Global Monitoring	59
6	Applications of the Single Cell Gel Assay to Environmental Biomonitoring for Genotoxic Pollutants	69
7	Lymphocyte Proliferation as a Biomarker in Environmental Monitoring: Label, Mitotic and Replication Indices as Biomarkers in Environmental Monitoring	81
8	Chromosomal Aberrations and Sister Chromatid Exchanges in Vicia faba as Genetic Monitors of Environmental Pollutants	95
9	Biological Monitoring of Environmental Genotoxicity in Southwestern Ontario	115
10	Measurement of Placental Levels of Arsenic, Lead and Cadmium as a Biomarker of Exposure to Mixtures	139
11	Assessment of Cyto- and Genotoxicity of Environmental Samples: Improved Methods Using Human and Fish Cell Lines	149
12	Drosophila melanogaster Somatic Mutation and Recombination Test as a Biomonitor	169
13	Genotoxicity of Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) and Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Mixtures in the white/white[superscript +] Eye-Mosaic Assay	183
14	Pet Dogs as Sentinels for Human Exposure to Environmental Pollution	193
15	Tradescantia (Spiderwort) Plants as Biomonitors of the Genotoxicity of Environmental Pollutants	207
16	Stress Proteins: Molecular Biomarkers of Chemical Exposure and Toxicity	217
17	The Caffeine Breath Test: A Less Invasive Method to Measure Cytochrome P450-1A Activity in Birds	229
18	Biomarkers of Exposure of Brown Bullheads to Contaminants in Hamilton Harbour, Ontario	249
19	Behavioral Measures Are Excellent Biomarkers of Toxic Chemicals - A Case History: Offspring of Laboratory Rats Fed Environmentally Contaminated Lake Ontario Salmon Are More Reactive to Negative Events	275
20	Rapid Bioassessment of Algal Periphyton in Freshwater Streams	291
21	Developmental Instability as a Biomonitor of Environmental Stress: An Illustration Using Aquatic Plants and Macroalgae	313
22	Abstracts	339
	Index	341