ESPR subject area 5 ‘Environmental Microbiology, (Bio)Technologies, Health Issues’

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Limit the abstract to 250 words or fewer and concisely summarize the basic content of the paper without presenting extensive experimental details. Avoid abbreviations and do not include diagrams. When it is essential to include a reference, use the same format as shown in the References section but omit the article title. Because the abstract will be published separately by abstracting services...

Manual of Environmental Microbiology

Protistan assemblages of aquatic ecosystems are the focus of extensive research in aquatic ecology. One stimulus for this work has been the long-standing recognition that phototrophic protists (the unicellular algae) constitute a major fraction of the primary productivity within aquatic ecosystems. Another incentive has been the realization that protozoa (heterotrophic protists) play a pivotal ...

Priority Area 5: Reproductive Health

Mercury: major issues in environmental health.

In the past, methylmercury compounds were manufactured as fungicides or appeared as unwanted byproducts of the chemical industry, but today the methylation of inorganic mercury in aquatic sediments and soils is the predominant if not the sole source of methylmercury. This form of mercury is bioaccumulated to a high degree in aquatic food chains to attain its highest concentrations in edible tis...

Ethical issues in environmental health research.

Environmental health research encompasses a wide range of investigational topics, study designs, and empirical methodologies. As that arm of public health research concerned with understanding the health effects of the many environments in which humans live and work, the field is intimately connected with social concerns about environmental quality and disparities of power and privilege that pl...