Handbook of Cyanobacterial Monitoring and Cyanotoxin Analysis

This timely book focuses on the monitoring, analysis and assessment of mass populations of cyanobacteria (bluegreen algae) in natural and controlled waters, including lakes, rivers and drinking water reservoirs which are being increasingly affected by cyanobacterial mass populations (blooms) at global level. This handbook features a comprehensive range of up-to-date review chapters, followed by a corresponding series practical methods in a major and growing field of environmental, microbiological and ecotoxicological monitoring and analysis. The practical chapters, termed "Standard Operating Procedures" (SOPs), have undergone rigorous inter-laboratory trial and validation, and are presented in sufficient detail to enable a wide range of end-users to follow the procedures in the laboratory, in academic and government institutions and in industrial settings, including water treatment plants. The introductory and review chapters provide up-to-date overviews plus the necessary foundation for the subsequent use of the practical chapters for monitoring, analysis and the interpretation of the results. The practical chapters contain the necessary details to enable operators to perform the monitoring and analytical procedures in the field and laboratory. and controlled waters, including lakes, rivers and drinking water reservoirs which are being increasingly affected by cyanobacterial mass populations (blooms) at global level. This handbook features a comprehensive range of up-to-date review chapters, followed by a corresponding series practical methods in a major and growing field of environmental, microbiological and ecotoxicological monitoring and analysis. The practical chapters, termed "Standard Operating Procedures" (SOPs), have undergone rigorous inter-laboratory trial and validation, and are presented in sufficient detail to enable a wide range of end-users to follow the procedures in the laboratory, in academic and government institutions and in industrial settings, including water treatment plants. The introductory and review chapters will provide up-to-date overviews plus the necessary foundation for the subsequent use of the practical chapters for monitoring, analysis and the interpretation of the results. The practical chapters will contain the necessary details to enable operators to perform the monitoring and analytical procedures in the field and laboratory.