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Soil Microbial Community Changes in a Field Treatment with Chlorotoluron, Flufenacet and Diflufenican and Two Organic Amendments

Agronomy, 2020
The soil microbial activity, biomass and structure were evaluated in an unamended (S) and organically amended soil treated with two commercial formulations of the herbicides chlorotoluron (Erturon®) and flufenacet plus diflufenican (Herold®) under field ...
María José Carpio, Carlos García-Delgado, Jesús María Marín-Benito, María Jesús Sánchez-Martín, María Sonia Rodríguez-Cruz   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Oxidative Damage, Energy Imbalance, and Behavioral Disruptions in Girardia tigrina Exposed to Treated Sewage Effluents

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study assessed the ecotoxicological effects of treated sewage on the freshwater planarian Girardia tigrina, integrating biochemical, energetic, and behavioral biomarkers. Planarians were exposed for 48 h to different concentrations of treated sewage (12.5%, 25%, 50%, and 100%) and compared to controls using commercial water and water from
Renata M. P. Freitas, Pedro H. Carvalho, Daniela de Melo e Silva, Carlos Gravato   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Benzimidazole Anthelmintic Compounds Albendazole and Fenbendazole Show Distinct Toxicity on the Nitrogen Fixing Bacterium Mesorhizobium loti and Its Symbiosis With Lotus japonicus

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Veterinary medicines, which reach the soil mostly through the application of contaminated manures, can affect beneficial soil microorganisms, such as nitrogen‐fixing rhizobia bacteria, which engage in important symbiotic associations with plants.
Polyxeni Gorgia, Stathis Lagos, Christina N. Nikolaou, Nikoleta Basdeki, Christos Papadopoulos, Dimitrios G. Karpouzas, Daniela Tsikou   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seven Reasons Why Protists Make Useful Bioindicators [PDF]

, 2013
To introduce the special issue this paper reviews the use of protists as bioindicators. Seven key advantages of protist bioindicators are highlighted, namely: environmental sensitivity, functional importance, distribution, size and numbers, response ...
Payne, Richard J.
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Presence of Nationally Banned Carbamates and Organophosphate Pesticides in Wild Carnivores, Southeastern Brazil

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As top predators, terrestrial carnivores face great risk of pesticide exposure and serve as sentinels of environmental contamination. Additionally, terrestrial carnivores are frequently threatened by intentional or secondary poisoning with highly toxic compounds, such as carbamates and organophosphates.
Marina Pellegrino da Silva, Vagner Gonçalves‐Junior, Mauricio Candido da Silva, André Rinaldi Fukushima, Rose Lilian Gasparini‐Morato, Helenice de Souza Spinosa, Ana Carolina Ewbank, Carlos Sacristán, Ana de la Torre, José Luiz Catão‐Dias, Pedro Enrique Navas‐Suárez   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of light pollution on tree phenology in the urban environment

Moravian Geographical Reports, 2017
Research on urban climates has been an important topic in recent years, given the growing number of city inhabitants and significant influences of climate on health.
Škvareninová Jana, Tuhárska Mária, Škvarenina Jaroslav, Babálová Darina, Slobodníková Lenka, Slobodník Branko, Středová Hana, Minďaš Jozef   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Seven Reasons Why Protists Make Useful Bioindicators [PDF]

, 2015
To introduce the special issue this paper reviews the use of protists as bioindicators. Seven key advantages of protist bioindicators are highlighted, namely: environmental sensitivity, functional importance, distribution, size and numbers, response ...
Payne, Richard J.
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Trace Element Contamination in Top Predatory Elasmobranchs From the Southern Black Sea: Implications for Ecosystem Health and Risk Assessment

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental pollution resulting from the rapid increase in human population, urbanization, intensive use of chemicals in agriculture, and industrial development has reached a level that threatens natural life today. Trace elements are one of the most important factors causing significant levels of pollution in the environment and are added ...
Levent Bat, Süleyman Özdemir, Zekiye Birinci Özdemir, Ayşah Öztekin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Macroalgae fouling community as quality element for the evaluation of the ecological status in Vela Luka Bay, Croatia

Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 2012
One year qualitative and quantitative study of communities of three major taxonomic groups has been carried out at test panles placed in the upper infarlittoral zone of coastal area of Vela Luka Bay, Croatia. A list of 44 taxa was recorded.
Gorana Jelic Mrcelic, Merica Sliskovic, Boris Antolic   +2 more
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Experimental Evidence for Mobilization of Mercury From the Eggshell by the Developing Embryo in an Avian Model Organism

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Of the many pollutants wildlife is exposed to, mercury ranks among the most toxic. In birds, mercury does not only accumulate within generations, but also is transferred across generations via maternal offloading in eggs, with higher mercury concentrations found in shells of unhatched eggs.
Matteo Beccardi, Justine Bertram, Sandra Bouwhuis, Pablo Salmón, Peter J. Schupp, Oscar Vedder   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source