Pesticide Impact on Stream Fauna : With Special Reference to Macroinvertebrates (Paperback)

Preface and acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction and Origin of Pesticides in Running Waters: 1. Introduction; 2. Origins of pesticides in running waters; Part II. The Role of Laboratory and Experimental Methods in Evaluation: 3. Laboratory evaluation techniques; 4. Artificial community streams and channels in situ; 5. Invertebrate reaction to pesticides under laboratory and experimental conditions; Part III. Evaluation in Pest Control Projects: 6. Introduction to field sampling of aquatic macroinvertebrates in streams and rivers; 7. Impact of insecticides used in control of the spruce budworm; 8. Aquatic environmental effects of insecticides used in tsetse fly control; 9. Effect on non-targets of larvicides applied to running waters for control of blackfly (Simulium) larvae; 10. Impact of piscicides (and molluscicides); 11. Herbicides and aquatic invertebrates; Summary and assessment; References; Index.