This book offers a comprehensive guide to microcosms (N-systems) in multiple-species testing and aquatic ecosystem risk assessment. It provides standardized methods for creating the microbial ecosystem, and proposes a standardized microcosm system for environmental impact risk assessments. The book will be of interest to students and educators, researchers, government authorities, developers and manufacturers engaged in ecosystem preservation, water quality management personnel at sewage treatment or industrial effluent treatment facilities, and anyone involved in education, management and analysis evaluation for environmental standards and waste water quality standards.
Introduces N-system microcosm as a whole
Presents how N-system microcosm can be used as a stable and high reproductive method for aquatic ecosystem risk assessment
Provides standardization in creating the microbial ecosystem, enabled it to be used as model ecosystem testing method for multiple-species testing
Yuhei Inamori
Ecological risk assessment Functional parameter (production/respiration rate) Test manual Model ecosystems testing Whole Effluent Toxicity (WET) Ecological risk of chemicals WET water quality and water pollution ecotoxicology water quality and water pollution