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| Dato | Valore |
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| Title | Evaluating of a bioassays battery for ecotoxicological screening of marine sediments from Ionian Sea (Mediterranea Sea, Southern Italy). |
| Abstract | Sediments are an ecologically important component of the aquatic environment and may play a key role in mediating the exchange of contaminants between particulate, dissolved, and biological phases. For a comprehensive assessment of potential sediment toxicity, the use of a single species may not detect toxicant with a specific mode of action. Therefore it is advisable to carry out ecotoxicological tests on a base set of taxa utilizing test species belonging to different trophic levels. This paper describes the ecotoxicological evaluation of marine sediments from seven sites of Mar Piccolo estuary (Southern, Italy), four of them were located in the first inlet and three in the second inlet of Mar Piccolo estuary. Sediment samples from a site in Taranto Gulf were used as control sediment. Dunaliella tertiolecta, Tigriopus fulvus, Mytilus galloprovincialis, and Corophium insidiosum, were employed to identify the quality of sediments. The integration of biological tests results showed that all sampling sites located in the first inlet of Mar Piccolo were identified as toxic, according to all tests, while the sites of second inlet were found not toxic. The results obtained in this study indicate that the use of a battery of biological tests have important implications for risk assessment in estuarine e coastal waters. |
| Source | Environmental monitoring and assessment (Print) 184, pp. 5225–5238 |
| Keywords | Sediment qualityDunaliella tertiolectaTigriopus fulvusMytilus galloprovincialisCorophium insidiosum |
| Journal | Environmental monitoring and assessment (Print) |
| Editor | Kluwer Academic Publishers, London, Paesi Bassi |
| Year | 2012 |
| Type | Articolo in rivista |
| Authors | Ermelinda Prato, Isabella Parlapaiano, Francesca Biandolino |
| Text | 191059 2012 Sediment quality Dunaliella tertiolecta Tigriopus fulvus Mytilus galloprovincialis Corophium insidiosum Evaluating of a bioassays battery for ecotoxicological screening of marine sediments from Ionian Sea Mediterranea Sea, Southern Italy . Ermelinda Prato, Isabella Parlapaiano, Francesca Biandolino CNR IAMC UOS Taranto Sediments are an ecologically important component of the aquatic environment and may play a key role in mediating the exchange of contaminants between particulate, dissolved, and biological phases. For a comprehensive assessment of potential sediment toxicity, the use of a single species may not detect toxicant with a specific mode of action. Therefore it is advisable to carry out ecotoxicological tests on a base set of taxa utilizing test species belonging to different trophic levels. This paper describes the ecotoxicological evaluation of marine sediments from seven sites of Mar Piccolo estuary Southern, Italy , four of them were located in the first inlet and three in the second inlet of Mar Piccolo estuary. Sediment samples from a site in Taranto Gulf were used as control sediment. Dunaliella tertiolecta, Tigriopus fulvus, Mytilus galloprovincialis, and Corophium insidiosum, were employed to identify the quality of sediments. The integration of biological tests results showed that all sampling sites located in the first inlet of Mar Piccolo were identified as toxic, according to all tests, while the sites of second inlet were found not toxic. The results obtained in this study indicate that the use of a battery of biological tests have important implications for risk assessment in estuarine e coastal waters. 184 Evaluating of a bioassays battery for ecotoxicological screening of marine sediments from Ionian Sea Mediterranea Sea, Southern Italy . Prato_et_al_2012_EMA.pdf Articolo in rivista Kluwer Academic Publishers 0167 6369 Environmental monitoring and assessment Print Environmental monitoring and assessment Print Environ. monit. assess. Print Environmental monitoring and assessment. Print francesca.biandolino BIANDOLINO FRANCESCA ermelinda.prato PRATO ERMELINDA |