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The production of toxins by marine and freshwater microalgae has been known for decades. However toxic blooms have increased recently in frequency and distribution, which has raised serious concerns regarding seafood and drinking water safety. Global climate change is one of the factors contributing to the spreading of toxin producing species in aquatic systems. Climate change is expected also to affect greatly yield and quality of food crops worldwide, mainly as a result of changes in rainfall, increased temperature and increased concentration of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. This book compiles current evidence on the influence of climate change on harmful algal blooms (HABs). Additionally, the biology of toxic species and toxin production will be revised to provide a basis for understanding climate effects. The final objective of research in this field is controlling if not preventing the impact on human and animal health and, therefore, an overview of current trends in HABs prediction models and management of seafood and drinking water safety and in mycotoxin modelling and prevention in food and animal feed is also addressed.
New in the 3rd Edition: additional chapters on brevetoxins and tetrodotoxin.
Luis M Botana is professor of Pharmacology at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Campus Lugo, he was director of the Deparment of Pharmacology (2002-2012) and director of the European Reference Laboratory for Marine Biotoxins (2004-2009). He is author of over 500 papers, 25 patents, editor of 18 international books and has directed 52 PhD thesis.
M. Carmen Louzao, professor of Pharmacology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Campus in Lugo). She was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS, USA) from 1994 to 1995. She is author of over 150 scientific publications and 40 reviews and book chapters in the field of Pharmacology, Toxicology, Biochemistry, Immunology and Analytical Chemistry.
Natalia Vilariño, professor of Pharmacology to Veterinary Medicine and Biochemistry students at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center. She has authored more than 80 scientific publications and 23 book chapters in the fields of Pharmacology, Analytical Chemistry and Toxicology.
