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| Title | Achnanthidium minutissimum (Bacillariophyta) valve deformities as indicators of metal enrichment in diverse widely-distributed freshwater habitats |
| Abstract | In the presence of different environmental stressors, diatoms can produce frustules presenting different types of deformities. Metals and trace elements are among the most common causes of these teratological forms. Metal enrichment in water bodies can be attributed to the geological setting of the area or to pollution. The widespread benthic diatom Achnanthidium minutissimum (ADMI) is one of the most metal-tolerant species. In the present study, ADMI teratologies were defined from samples taken from eight very diverse, widely-distributed inlandwater habitats: streams affected by active and abandoned mining areas, a metal-contaminated stream, a spring in an old chalcopyrite mine, a mineral-water fountain, and a sediment core taken from a lake affected by metal contamination in the past. Deformed frustules of ADMI were characterised mainly by one (sometimes two) more or less bent offending, conferring to the specimens a cymbelloid outline (cymbellidinum-like teratology, CLT). Marked teratologies were distinguished from slight deformities. Hydrochemical analyses, including metals and trace elements, were carried out and enrichment factors (EF) relative to average crustal composition were calculated. To improve-our knowledge-on-the potential of different metals and trace elements to trigger the occurrence of ADMI CLT, we carefully selected 15 springs out of 110 (CRENODAT dataset) where both ADMI and above-average metal or metalloid concentrations occurred, and re-analysed these samples. The results from the eight widely-distributed core sites as well as from the 15 selected CRENODAT springs led to the hypothesis that two metals (copper and zinc) and a metalloid (antimony) were the most likely triggers of ADMI CLT formation. From a quantitative point of view, it is worth noting that the lowest concentrations triggering ADMI CLT can be fairly low, particularly in the case of copper contamination. The antimony-rich site was characterised by a marked-teratology variant where both ends of ADMI were bent off. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
| Source | Science of the total environment 475, pp. 201–215 |
| Keywords | DiatomsBioassessment"Cymbelliclinum"-like teratologies (CLT)Copper |
| Journal | Science of the total environment |
| Editor | Elsevier, Lausanne ;, Paesi Bassi |
| Year | 2014 |
| Type | Articolo in rivista |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.018 |
| Authors | Marco Cantonati; Nicola Angeli; Laura Virtanen; Agata Z. Wojtal; Jacopo Gabrieli; Elisa Falasco; Isabelle Lavoie; Soizic Morin; Aldo Marchetto; Claude Fortin; Svetlana Smirnova |
| Text | 301660 2014 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.018 ISI Web of Science WOS 000331924200025 Diatoms Bioassessment Cymbelliclinum like teratologies CLT Copper Achnanthidium minutissimum Bacillariophyta valve deformities as indicators of metal enrichment in diverse widely distributed freshwater habitats Marco Cantonati; Nicola Angeli; Laura Virtanen; Agata Z. Wojtal; Jacopo Gabrieli; Elisa Falasco; Isabelle Lavoie; Soizic Morin; Aldo Marchetto; Claude Fortin; Svetlana Smirnova Museo Sci MUSE; University of Helsinki; Polish Academy of Science; Universita Ca Foscari Venezia; University of Turin; University of Quebec; Irstea; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR ; Russian Academy of Sciences In the presence of different environmental stressors, diatoms can produce frustules presenting different types of deformities. Metals and trace elements are among the most common causes of these teratological forms. Metal enrichment in water bodies can be attributed to the geological setting of the area or to pollution. The widespread benthic diatom Achnanthidium minutissimum ADMI is one of the most metal tolerant species. In the present study, ADMI teratologies were defined from samples taken from eight very diverse, widely distributed inlandwater habitats streams affected by active and abandoned mining areas, a metal contaminated stream, a spring in an old chalcopyrite mine, a mineral water fountain, and a sediment core taken from a lake affected by metal contamination in the past. Deformed frustules of ADMI were characterised mainly by one sometimes two more or less bent offending, conferring to the specimens a cymbelloid outline cymbellidinum like teratology, CLT . Marked teratologies were distinguished from slight deformities. Hydrochemical analyses, including metals and trace elements, were carried out and enrichment factors EF relative to average crustal composition were calculated. To improve our knowledge on the potential of different metals and trace elements to trigger the occurrence of ADMI CLT, we carefully selected 15 springs out of 110 CRENODAT dataset where both ADMI and above average metal or metalloid concentrations occurred, and re analysed these samples. The results from the eight widely distributed core sites as well as from the 15 selected CRENODAT springs led to the hypothesis that two metals copper and zinc and a metalloid antimony were the most likely triggers of ADMI CLT formation. From a quantitative point of view, it is worth noting that the lowest concentrations triggering ADMI CLT can be fairly low, particularly in the case of copper contamination. The antimony rich site was characterised by a marked teratology variant where both ends of ADMI were bent off. C 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 475 Articolo 2014_Science_of_the_Total_Environment_475_201_215.pdf Articolo in rivista Elsevier 0048 9697 Science of the total environment Science of the total environment Sci. total environ. aldo.marchetto MARCHETTO ALDO jacopo.gabrieli GABRIELI JACOPO TA.P02.014.002 Impatto dei cambiamenti globali sugli ecosistemi acquatici |