Environmental status of (micro)plastics contamination in Portugal.

abstract：:Brassica juncea (Indian mustard) L. plants were exposed to different concentrations (0.0, 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3mM) of arsenic (V) and harvested after 30 and 60 days of sowing for the analysis of growth parameters, metal uptake, brassinosteroids (BRs) synthesis and oxidative stress markers. As (V) significantly hampered the...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Kanwar MK,Poonam,Bhardwaj R

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, calcium and magnesium substituted strontium nano-hexaferrites (Sr0.96Mg0.02Ca0.02Fe12O19, SrMgCa nano-HF) were synthesized by the sol-gel auto-combustion method and their impact on the nutrient uptake, magnetic character and physiology of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), a crop plant, was investigated. Stru...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Tombuloglu H,Slimani Y,Tombuloglu G,Almessiere M,Sozeri H,Demir-Korkmaz A,AlShammari TM,Baykal A,Ercan I,Hakeem KR

更新日期：2019-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Cymbush (100 g of pure cypermethrin/liter of petroleum ether) was added to sucrose syrup at 12.5 microg/L and given to honeybee colonies (Apis mellifera mellifera, L.) in their diet for 5 months (July to November). Many perturbations have been recorded in treated groups in contrast to controls placed in the same area....

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Bendahou N,Fleche C,Bounias M

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of the pathway of cadmium in the European Community (EC) has led to the development of a time-dependent computer model that relates past and present environmental cadmium levels to the inputs of cadmium. Information on the origin and movement of environmental cadmium through the different compartments of the b...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： van Enk RH

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impairment of DNA in marine gastropod Morula granulata was evaluated in terms of the loss of DNA integrity in the species as a measure of the impact of genotoxic contaminants prevalent in the marine environment along the coast of Goa, India. The extent of DNA damage occurred in the marine gastropods collected from...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Sarkar A,Bhagat J,Sarker S

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A newly proposed three-dimensional model for the effects of heavy metals on the growth of batch cultures of algae that allows the estimation of the no detected toxic effect concentration (NDEC) is presented. Two batch assays with exposure to copper were investigated in situ. As an endpoint in the in situ studies of ec...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Wang C,Wang X,Su R,Liang S,Yang S

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil ecosystems surrounding chromium slag undergo continuous harsh physicochemical conditions due to multiple heavy metals contamination. Previous studies of soil microbial communities mainly focused on surface soil layer, while little was known about the depth-related distributions of the microbial communities in chr...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Liu B,Su G,Yang Y,Yao Y,Huang Y,Hu L,Zhong H,He Z

更新日期：2019-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Society's reliance upon chemicals over the last few decades has led to their increased production, application and release into the environment. Determination of chemical persistence is crucial for risk assessment and management of chemicals. Current established OECD biodegradation guidelines enable testing of chemica...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Kowalczyk A,Martin TJ,Price OR,Snape JR,van Egmond RA,Finnegan CJ,Schäfer H,Davenport RJ,Bending GD

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The strobilurins are used widely in the world as effective fungicidal agents to control Asian soybean rust. In this study, the early life stage of grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella), which is one of the most important aquaculture species in China, was chosen to measure the acute toxicity of three common strobilurin-...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Liu L,Jiang C,Wu ZQ,Gong YX,Wang GX

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five chemical amendments (soft rock phosphate, lime, commercial phosphate amendment, red mud and magnesium oxide) were applied across four different shooting range soils to chemically stabilise metal(loid)s in the soils. Soils were contaminated with Pb between 2330 and 12,167 mg/kg, Sb from 7.4 to 325 mg/kg and soil p...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Sanderson P,Naidu R,Bolan N

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonylphenol (NP) is one of commonly detected contaminants in the environment. Biological degradation is mainly responsible for remediation of NP-contaminated site. Knowledge about the structure of NP-degrading microbial community is still very limited. Microcosms were constructed to investigate the structure of microb...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Wang Z,Yang Y,Sun W,Xie S,Liu Y

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytoremediation is an effective way to repair heavy metal contaminated soil and rhizosphere microorganisms play an important role in plant regulation. Nevertheless, little information is known about the variation of microbial metabolic activities and community structure in rhizosphere during phytoremediation. In this...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Liu C,Lin H,Li B,Dong Y,Yin T

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bisphenol A (BPA) is a well-known xenobiotic endocrine disrupting chemical, with estrogenic activity and many other potential biological effects. Although multiple toxicities have been reported for BPA, molecular mechanisms underlying the transgenerational toxic effects of BPA are still underestimated. METH...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Huang W,Zheng S,Wang X,Cai Z,Xiao J,Liu C,Wu K

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cadmium (Cd) easily accumulates in tobacco, which endangers public health through Cd exposure from smoking. However, its uptake, translocation, and distribution in tobacco plants during plant development or its response to biochar application are poorly understood. A pot experiment was conducted with tobacco (Yunyan 8...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Yao P,Zhou H,Li X,Wei L,Wang J,Zhang S,Ye X

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceratophyllum demersum is a submerged aquatic angiosperm which is fast growing in contaminated water. This plant has no roots and so takes up nutrients from the water column without the complicating factor of differential shoot/root uptake of nutrients. This study aimed to compare the bioaccumulative capacities of Cu,...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Hak K,Ritchie RJ,Dummee V

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate antioxidative responses in roots, stem and leaves of four alfalfa cultivars to different concentrations of zinc (Zn) (0, 300, 600 and 900 μM) for 23 days. Among the four cultivars, Aohan displayed the highest Zn concentrations in tissues and the largest Zn amount in aerial parts. ...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Dai HP,Shan CJ,Zhao H,Li JC,Jia GL,Jiang H,Wu SQ,Wang Q

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the reduction of the arsenic standard from 50 to 10 μg L(-1) by the US Environmental Protection Agency in 2006 many small town and rural water municipalities were left with the task of preventing or mitigating arsenic contamination of drinking water supplies. In this study macrophytes and sediments were used to ...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Martinez EA,Shu-Nyamboli C

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a source of edible oil and protein, soybean is a major globally important economic crop; Improving its production has been an important objective of soybean breeding. Acid rain has been shown to influence soybean growth and productivity, with consequent adverse impacts on its production for use by human populations...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Yang L,Xu Y,Zhang R,Wang X,Yang C

更新日期：2018-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterotrophic denitrifiers, capable of simultaneous nitrate reduction and Fe(II) oxidation, can be applied for the remediation of nitrate and Fe(II) combined contamination in groundwater. Under strictly anaerobic condition, denitrifying microbial communities were enriched with the coexistence of soluble nitrate, Fe(II...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Liu Y,Feng C,Sheng Y,Dong S,Chen N,Hao C

更新日期：2018-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Pesticides are the main environmental factor associated with the etiology of human neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease. Our laboratory has previously demonstrated that the treatment of rats with low doses of dimethoate, zineb or glyphosate alone or in combination induces oxidative stress (OS) in li...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Astiz M,de Alaniz MJ,Marra CA

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological self-purification processes are a central point for the ecological states of rivers. The degradation efficiency of pollutants is mainly due to the microflora and can be detected with enzyme-activity tests. Extracellular-enzyme activity of freshwater sediments was measured, in a microcosm, versus differe...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Montuelle B,Volat B

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel phosphorothionate (2-butenoic acid-3-(diethoxy phosphinothioyl)-methyl ester (RPR-II), synthesized at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, targets its effect on rat brain acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and Na(+)-K(+), Mg(2+), and Ca(2+) ATPases, as evident in this investigation. Three subchroni...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Rahman MF,Siddiqui MK,Jamil K

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the most used chemicals in the world are nonionic surfactants. One of these environmental pollutants is nonylphenol ethoxylate (NP-9), also known as Tergitol, and its degradation product, nonylphenol (NP). The objective of this work was to determine the toxicity of NP and NP-9 in Caenorhabditis elegans. Wild-typ...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： De la Parra-Guerra A,Olivero-Verbel J

更新日期：2020-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the exposure of earthworms (Eisenia andrei) to contaminated soil from an abandoned uranium mine, were assessed through gene expression profile evaluation by Suppression Subtractive Hybridization (SSH). Organisms were exposed in situ for 56 days, in containers placed both in a contaminated and in a non-c...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Lourenço J,Pereira R,Gonçalves F,Mendo S

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During desert locust plagues large amounts of insecticides are used for control operations. Drift from these treatments and accidental overspraying may contaminate small surface waters such as temporary ponds. The present study describes methods for static acute toxicity tests with two abundant organisms that occur in...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Lahr J,Badji A,Marquenie S,Schuiling E,Ndour KB,Diallo AO,Everts JW

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute toxic effects on Salmo gairdneri, Poecilia reticulata, Daphnia magna, and the growth inhibition of Selenastrum capricornutum were measured for eight aromatic hydrocarbons. Toxicity measurements were carried out following the OECD standard guidelines modified as appropriate in order to prevent hydrocarbon loss by...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Galassi S,Mingazzini M,Viganò L,Cesareo D,Tosato ML

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The wide use of the herbicide diuron has compromised surrounding uncultivated areas, resulting in acute and/or chronic damage to non-target plants. Thus, the aim of this research was to evaluate physiological and morphoanatomical responses in Bauhinia variegata L. plants to different doses of diuron. Seedlings of 90-d...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Lima DA,Müller C,Costa AC,Batista PF,Dalvi VC,Domingos M

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increase in the production and usage plus the toxicity nature of organophosphate flame retardants (OPFRs) has become a concern. However, limited information is available about the bioaccumulation potential of OPFRs in fish. In this study, we determined the 96 h LC50 s, and evaluated the bioaccumulation potential o...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Bekele TG,Zhao H,Wang Y,Jiang J,Tan F

更新日期：2018-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Endosulfan contaminated soil has become an important risk to the environment and human health worldwide. In the present study, endosulfan tolerant bacterial strain Delftia lacustris IITISM30 and Klebsiella aerogenes IITISM42 were isolated from pesticide stressed agricultural soil and tested for plant growth promoting ...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Rani R,Kumar V,Gupta P,Chandra A

更新日期：2019-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple heavy metals pollution in environment and food has become an ever-increasing concern and poses a serious threat towards humans and animals. To broad the multiple heavy metals detection, Fe3O4 nanoparticles, Fe3O4/multi-walled carbon nanotubes (Fe3O4/MWCNTs) and Fe3O4/fluorinated multi-walled carbon nanotubes ...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Wu W,Jia M,Zhang Z,Chen X,Zhang Q,Zhang W,Li P,Chen L

更新日期：2019-07-15 00:00:00