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Division indices were compared with data on environmental factors to determine which contributed to the decline in the division rate. Temperatures above the thermocline ranged from 14 to 18 C and salinity from 29 to 31 /oo, both close to the ranges found to be optimal for this species in laboratory experiments (10). 

It should be noted, however, that water solubility is influenced by various environmental factors not included in this equation, the most obvious being temperature and pressure. Water solubility also tends to decrease with increasing salinity via a salting-out effect. This equation is therefore not particularly useful for high-melting nonionic solids. 

In this chapter we have pointed to some fundamental physical environmental factors that in our view are important to take into account in order to improve REACH (and likely other chemical legislations). We have also pointed to the potential of an increased use of mathematical population models to obtain more relevant data for environmental risk assessment. With increased knowledge about how various physical environmental factors (e.g. temperature, pH, salinity, 02) on one hand influence toxicity and on the other may be taken into account in the process of environmental risk assessment, chances will improve to achieve a process that is efficient, cost effective, scientifically robust, and meets the demands of science-based precaution. Environmental risk assessment within REACH would thus become a more diverse but at the same time more adequate process than the one presented in the current version. 

The extent to which a xenobiotic is susceptible to microbial attack depends on a number of environmental factors including the concentration of the substrate, its bioavailability, and the presence of other substrates as well as on physical parameters such as temperature, salinity, and pH. 

The eflFects of other environmental factors, for example, pH, salinity, and temperature, should be included. 

State, types of functional groups), redox potential, pH, nutrient and carbon availability, contaminant bioavailability and concentration, electron acceptors, temperature, salinity, and microbial consortia and biomass (D Angelo, 2002). Reaction rates can vary over several orders of magnitude depending on these environmental factors. Studies have documented the effects of several of these factors on rates of mineralization of contaminants in wetland substrates. Redox potential, a measure of the electron availability and an indirect measure of the oxygen status, has been used to show certain compounds degrade favorably under aerobic conditions (e.g., naphthalene), others under anaerobic conditions (e.g., DDT), and still others under moderately anaerobic conditions (e.g., polychlorobi-phenyls [PCBs]). 

Adequate sampling and monitoring of indicator bacteria in surface waters require a good understanding of enteric bacteria distributions and the factors that influence their densities in water. Fecal coliform concentrations are not evenly distributed in surface waters. Their densities vary in relation to season, climate, tidal cycles, and environmental factors such as temperature, salinity, turbidity, nutrients, and solar radiation intensity. 

Variance among individuals as well as variance at different seasonal points has been commonly observed in responses of bivalves. Environmental and internal factors including temperature, food availability, food quality, salinity and... 

Hot deserts or desertlike habitats represent a complex of environmental factors. Besides the scarcity of water, there are extreme temperature changes within short periods of time, intense insolation, salinity, and strong, dry winds that erode the plants or cover them with sand or dust. Occasional heavy flooding by water also may occur. 

Elimination can be accomplished by passive diffusion when external concentrations are lower than internal concentrations favoring outward flux and by enzymatic pathways that convert hydrophobic parent compounds to more polar metabolites that can be more readily excreted by those taxa that possess a kidney or kidney-like organ (vertebrates and invertebrates such as annelids, molluscs, and arthropods). Conversion of the hydrophobic PAH to a more polar metabolite will decrease its ability to diffuse through the gill membrane, thus favoring the excretory route. The rate of elimination may be affected by environmental factors such as temperature and salinity, and by physiological factors, including reproductive state, age, sex, stress, and enzyme induction, in addition to such factors as route of uptake, chemical hydrophobicity, and exposure history. 

All data referred to so far have been taken from the results of laboratory investigations of the effects of mercury compounds. The majority of these studies have involved the exposmre of a small number of animals of a single species to clean water containing a range of concentrations of the toxic material. The exposure time has usually been short and although the environmental factors such as temperature, salinity, and dissolved oxygen have been maintained at a constant level, no attempt has... 

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