abstract：:Along with mechanistic models, predictions of exposure-response relationships for copper are often derived from laboratory toxicity experiments with standardized experimental exposures and conditions. For predictions of copper toxicity to algae, cell density is a critical factor often overlooked. For pulse exposures o...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Kinley CM,Iwinski KJ,Hendrikse M,Geer TD,Rodgers JH Jr

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacterial blooms and cyanotoxins occur in freshwater lakes and reservoirs all over the world. Bacterial degradation of microcystins (MC), hepatotoxins produced by several cyanobacterial species, has also been broadly documented. However, information regarding MC biodegradation in European water bodies is very lim...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Dziga D,Maksylewicz A,Maroszek M,Budzyńska A,Napiorkowska-Krzebietke A,Toporowska M,Grabowska M,Kozak A,Rosińska J,Meriluoto J

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dye dispersion and the interaction efficiency between azoreductases and dye molecules are rate-limiting steps for the decolorization of azo dyes. In this study, a biosurfactant-producing strain, Pseudomonas taiwanensis L1011, was isolated from crude oil. To increase the yield of the biosurfactant BS-L1011 from P. taiw...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Liu C,You Y,Zhao R,Sun D,Zhang P,Jiang J,Zhu A,Liu W

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve substituent descriptors, 17 quantum chemical descriptors and 1/T were selected to establish a quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) model of Henry's law constants for 7 polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) at five different temperatures. Then, the lgH of 202 congeners at different temperatures w...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Long J,Youli Q,Yu L

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dyes are widely used in various sectors and can be released into the environment where they persist for a long time because of their high stability to light or temperature and their resistance to environmental degradation. Dyes are often poorly characterized and toxicological/ecotoxicological data are available only f...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Croce R,Cinà F,Lombardo A,Crispeyn G,Cappelli CI,Vian M,Maiorana S,Benfenati E,Baderna D

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorantraniliprole (CAP) is a newly developed insecticide widely used in rice fields in China. There has been few studies evaluating the toxicological effects of CAP on soil-associated microbes. An 85-day microcosm experiment was performed to reveal the dissipation dynamics of CAP in three types of paddy soils in sub...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Wu M,Liu J,Li W,Liu M,Jiang C,Li Z

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outdoor pot experiment was designed to study the potential of poplar (Populus nigra 'Italica') in phytoremediation of cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb). Poplar was treated with a combination of different concentrations of Cd (w = 10, 25, 50mgkg-1 soil) and Pb (400, 800, 1200mgkg-1 soil) and several physiological and bioch...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Radojčić Redovniković I,De Marco A,Proietti C,Hanousek K,Sedak M,Bilandžić N,Jakovljević T

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromium (Cr) is a highly toxic environmental pollutant that negatively affects plant growth and development. Thus, remediating Cr from soil or increasing plant tolerance against Cr stress is urgent. Organic acids are recognized as agents of phytoremediation and as exogenous protectants, but using maleic acid (MA) to ...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Mahmud JA,Hasanuzzaman M,Nahar K,Rahman A,Hossain MS,Fujita M

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure and function of soil microbial communities have been widely used as indicators of soil quality and fertility. The effect of biochar application on carbon sequestration has been studied, but the effect on soil microbial functional diversity has received little attention. We evaluated effects of biochar ap...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Zhu LX,Xiao Q,Shen YF,Li SQ

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metals and metalloids released through anthropogenic activities can accumulate in aquatic organisms, resulting in adverse effects in sensitive species. We investigated the influence of feeding regime and exposure complexity (i.e., mixture) on bioaccumulation kinetics and body distribution of common metal(loid) polluta...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Lanctôt CM,Cresswell T,Melvin SD

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper and Cd are natural constituents of freshwater ecosystems, both cycling influenced by microbial communities. The present research examined the impacts of environmentally relevant concentrations of Cu and Cd on the growth, viability, cell size, chlorophyll a (Chl a) content and photochemical efficiency of the tro...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Echeveste P,Silva JC,Lombardi AT

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of Culex quinquefasciatus using chemical insecticides may result in the selection of resistant mosquito strains. Thus, the use of plant-derived products has been studied as alternative for the mosquito control. Fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs) obtained by transesterification of vegetable oils may result in com...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Ribeiro-Neto JA,Pinto MEA,Ferreira VV,Tibúrcio JD,Varotti FP,Azevedo DO,Siqueira-Filho EP,Serrão JE,Lima LAS,Alves SN

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contamination of soil with heavy metals has become an issue of concern on global scale. This study investigates the translocation of lead (Pb) along the soil - plant (eggplant and tomato) - mealybug (Dysmicoccus neobrevipes) - ladybird beetle (Cryptolaemus montrouzieri) food chain. Soil amendments used for this study ...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Zhang C,Wang X,Ashraf U,Qiu B,Ali S

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study reports the genetic damage and the concentrations of trace metals and total petroleum hydrocarbons prevailing in natural populations of an edible fish, Arius arius in different seasons along the coast of Goa, India as an indicator of the pollution status of coastal water. Fish were collected from a s...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： D'Costa A,Shyama SK,Praveen Kumar MK

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrazine (ATZ) is an herbicide most commonly used in China and other regions of the world. It is reported toxic to aquatic organisms, and frequently occurs at relatively high concentrations. Currently, ATZ has been proved to affect reproduction of aquatic species at much lower levels. So it is controversial to perform...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Zheng L,Zhang Y,Yan Z,Zhang J,Li L,Zhu Y,Zhang Y,Zheng X,Wu J,Liu Z

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diesel is a commonly used fuel and a key pollutant on water surface through leaks and accidental spills, thus creating risk directly to planktons as well as other aquatic organisms. We assessed the toxicty of diesel and its water accommodated fraction (WAF) towards two microalgal species, Pseudokirchneriella subcapita...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Ramadass K,Megharaj M,Venkateswarlu K,Naidu R

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bottom sediments are very important in aquatic ecosystems. The sediments accumulate heavy metals and compounds belonging to the group of persistent organic pollutants. The accelerated solvent extraction (ASE) was used for extraction of 16 compounds from PAH group from bottom sediment of Vistula. For the matrix of cand...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Kiełbasa A,Buszewski B

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bisphenol A (BPA) is a widely used chemical that has been extensively studied as an endocrine-disrupting chemical (EDC). Other bisphenols sharing close structural features with BPA, are increasingly being used as alternatives, increasing the need to assess associated hazards to the endocrine system. In the present stu...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Le Fol V,Aït-Aïssa S,Sonavane M,Porcher JM,Balaguer P,Cravedi JP,Zalko D,Brion F

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural radiation of geological origin is a common phenomenon in Brazil, a country where radioactive agents such as uranium may be often found. As an unstable atom, uranium undergoes radioactive decay with the generation of a series of decay by-products, including radon, which may be highly genotoxic and trigger sever...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Verçosa CJ,Moraes Filho AV,Castro ÍFA,Santos RGD,Cunha KS,Silva DME,Garcia ACL,Navoni JA,Amaral VSD,Rohde C

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased oil sands (OS) mining activity has raised concerns about impacts on aquatic organisms. This study sought to examine the effects of single representative compounds from OS (benzo(a)pyrene, naphthalene), a mixture of naphthenic acids (NAs), OS-processed water (OSPW) and OS leachate (OSL) extracts on rainbow tr...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Gagné F,Bruneau A,Turcotte P,Gagnon C,Lacaze E

更新日期：2017-07-01 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 sea cucumber Stichopus horrens is an important component of near-shore ecosystems, and in the Kingdom of Tonga it also comprises an important commercial and subsistence fishery. To assess the sensitivity of this species to the toxic trace metal cadmium (Cd), adult S. horrens were exposed for 96h to an environmenta...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Charan-Dixon H,Gaw S,Goldstien SJ,Glover CN

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing commercial application of silver nanoparticles (Ag NP) and subsequent presence in wastewater and sewage sludge has raised concerns regarding their effects in the aquatic and terrestrial environment. Several studies have employed standardised acute and chronic earthworm-based tests to establish the toxicolog...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Brami C,Glover AR,Butt KR,Lowe CN

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous studies, naphthoquinone (NQ) compounds have been shown to be effective, selective, and ecologically safe algicides for controlling harmful algal blooming species (HABs) or winter bloom species, such as Stephanodiscus hantzschii. However, there are no reports on NQ-based algicides for use with cyanobacteria...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Joo JH,Wang P,Park BS,Byun JH,Choi HJ,Kim SH,Han MS

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentrations of several organic contaminants (OCs) and heavy metals were measured in indoor dust from e-waste recycling, rural, and urban areas in South China to illustrate the spatial characteristics of these pollutants and to further evaluate human exposure risks. The median concentrations of polychlorinated b...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： He CT,Zheng XB,Yan X,Zheng J,Wang MH,Tan X,Qiao L,Chen SJ,Yang ZY,Mai BX

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contamination of the environment by heavy metals has been increasing in recent years due to industrial activities. Thus research involving microorganisms capable of surviving in multi-contaminated environments is extremely important. The objectives of the present study were to evaluate the removal of mercury alone and...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Giovanella P,Cabral L,Costa AP,de Oliveira Camargo FA,Gianello C,Bento FM

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Box-Behnken model of response surface methodology was used to study the effect of adsorption process parameters for Rhodamine B (RhB) removal from aqueous solution through optimized large surface area date stone activated carbon. The set experiments with three input parameters such as time (10-600min), adsorbent dosag...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Danish M,Khanday WA,Hashim R,Sulaiman NS,Akhtar MN,Nizami M

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromium (Cr) pollution affects plant growth and biochemical processes, so, the relative uptake of glycine, nitrate, and ammonium by pak choi (Brassica chinensis) seedlings in treatments with 0mgL-1 and 10mgL-1 Cr (VI) were detected by substrate-specific 15N-labelling in a sterile environment. The short-term uptake of...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Ma Q,Cao X,Ma J,Tan X,Xie Y,Xiao H,Wu L

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to treatments with Temephos or plant derived oil, Pb-CVO, between a field collected Wild Strain (WS) and a susceptible Laboratory Strain (LS) of Ae. aegypti were measured. The Temephos (0.1mg/L) showed the greatest percentage of mosquito mortality compared to Pb-CVO (1.5mg/L) in LS Ae. aegypti. However, WS ...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Vasantha-Srinivasan P,Senthil-Nathan S,Ponsankar A,Thanigaivel A,Edwin ES,Selin-Rani S,Chellappandian M,Pradeepa V,Lija-Escaline J,Kalaivani K,Hunter WB,Duraipandiyan V,Al-Dhabi NA

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have documented that microcystins (MCs) have potential toxic effects on growth and reproduction in fish. However, no systematic data exist on whether MCs cause gonadal development retardation through disrupting the growth hormone/insulin-like growth factors (GH/IGFs) system. To this end, zebrafish hatch...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Hou J,Su Y,Lin W,Guo H,Xie P,Chen J,Gu Z,Li L

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:H2S and NO are two important gasotransmitters that modulate stress responses in plants. There are the contradictory data on crosstalk between NO and H2S in the studies. Hence, in the present study, the role of interplay between NO and H2S was assessed on the Pb tolerance of Sesamum indicum using pharmacological and bi...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Amooaghaie R,Zangene-Madar F,Enteshari S

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biotechnology is considered as a promising technology for the removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from the environment. Free bacteria are often sensitive to some biotic and abiotic factors in the environment to the extent that their ability to effect biodegradation of organic pollutants, such as polycyclic aro...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Deng F,Zhang Z,Yang C,Guo C,Lu G,Dang Z

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the bacterial strain Citrobacter youngae strain E4 was isolated from 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT)-contaminated soil and used to assess the capacity of TNT transformation with/without exogenous nutrient amendments. C. youngae E4 poorly degraded TNT without an exogenous amino nitrogen source, whereas the a...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Liang SH,Hsu DW,Lin CY,Kao CM,Huang DJ,Chien CC,Chen SC,Tsai IJ,Chen CC

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrothermal carbonization of biomass wastes presents a promising step in the production of cost-effective activated carbon. In the present work, mesoporous activated carbon (HAC) was prepared by the hydrothermal carbonization of rattan furniture wastes followed by NaOH activation. The textural and morphological chara...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Islam MA,Ahmed MJ,Khanday WA,Asif M,Hameed BH

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Street dust samples were collected from five different types of land use patterns (busy traffic zone, urban residential area, national highways, industrial area and sensitive area) in a medium sized industrial city Asansol, India. The samples were fractionated into ≤53µm and analyzed for potential toxic elements (PTEs...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Gope M,Masto RE,George J,Hoque RR,Balachandran S

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous study concerning the effects of surfactants on phenanthrene biodegradation focused on observing the changes of cell characteristics of Sphingomonas sp. GY2B. However, the impact of surfactants on the expression of bacterial proteins, controlling phenanthrene transport and catabolism, remains obscure. To overc...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Liu S,Guo C,Dang Z,Liang X

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two zinc-aminoclays [ZnACs] with functionalized primary amines [(-CH2)3NH2] were prepared by a simple sol-gel reaction using cationic metal precursors of ZnCl2 and Zn(NO3)2 with 3-aminopropyl triethoxysilane [APTES] under ambient conditions. Due to the facile interaction of heavy metals with primary amine sites and Zn...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Chun HS,Park D,Eun Lim S,Jeong KH,Park JS,Park HJ,Kang S,Kang KS,Park HG,An HR,Huh YS,Lee YC

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of various Congressional mandates to protect the environment from endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) initiated the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program. In the context of this framework, the Office of Research and Development within the USEPA devel...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Flynn K,Swintek J,Johnson R

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limited information is available on the effects of gallium (Ga) and indium (In) on the growth of paddy rice. The Ga and In are emerging contaminants and widely used in high-tech industries nowadays. Understanding the toxicity and accumulation of Ga and In by rice plants is important for reducing the effect on rice pro...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Syu CH,Chien PH,Huang CC,Jiang PY,Juang KW,Lee DY

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ascorbic acid (AsA) and nitric oxide (NO) are well known and widespread antioxidants and gaseous molecules that regulate plant tolerance to several stresses. However, the relationship between them in plant response to stress, especially heavy stress, is largely unclear. This study demonstrated that both AsA and NO cou...

journal_title：Ecotoxicology and environmental safety

authors： Wang Z,Li Q,Wu W,Guo J,Yang Y

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00