abstract：:Given the reported extent of microplastics in the aquatic environment, environmentally relevant exposure information for sediments dredged by the US Army Corps of Engineers will lend context to the risks posed by this contaminant during dredging. We measured the occurrence, abundance, and polymer composition of microp...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Wilkens JL,McQueen AD,LeMonte JJ,Suedel BC

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the summer of 2015, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the atmosphere were collected by passive air samplers in typical urban-rural fringe of Wuhan-Ezhou region, Central China. The results showed that 16 kinds of PAHs were ubiquitous with the concentrations of ∑16PAHs from 14.69 to 136.30 ng·m-3 and the...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Wu D,Liu H,Wang Z,Zhang J,Zhan C,Liu S,Liu T,Zheng J,Yao R,Cao J

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimethoate (D) are among the most commonly used organophosphates insecticides in the world. To evaluate the toxicity of two D formulations were selected as test organisms tadpoles of Rhinella arenarum. This toad species has an extensive neotropical distribution and is easy to handle and acclimate to laboratory conditi...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Martinuzzi CS,Attademo AM,Peltzer PM,Mac Loughlin TM,Marino DJG,Lajmanovich RC

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain microbes can biotransform antibiotics. Little is known about these microbes or the biotransformation processes. The objective of this study was to determine the effects of background nutrient conditions on a sulfonamide degrading culture and on its biotransformation of sulfadiazine (SDZ) with respect to transf...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Levine RE,Zhang Y,Leng Y,Snow DD,Cassada D,Durso LM,Li X

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, biochar particles (BPs) produced by the co-pyrolysis of sewage sludge and corncobs at temperatures of 300, 500, and 700°C were characterized. The Pb2+ adsorption properties and the heavy metal leaching toxicity rates of the BPs were investigated. It was found that the adsorption kinetics of the P...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Hong Y,Xu Z,Feng C,Xu D,Wu F

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to determine seasonal changes in the blood levels of some heavy metals in three Turkey-specific cattle breed: Native Land (NL), Grizzle Race (GR), and South Anatolian Red (SR). Blood samples were collected in summer and winter seasons from a total of 180 cattle aged 12-24 months. The levels of...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Aluc Y,Ekici H

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nowadays rare earth elements (REEs) are widely applied in high-technology and clean energy products, but their environmental risks are still largely unknown. To estimate the ecological risk of REEs, soil samples were collected from REE mine tailings with and without phytoremediation. The results showed that the tailin...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Zhao CM,Shi X,Xie SQ,Liu WS,He EK,Tang YT,Qiu RL

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotics in manure, soil, wastewater, and groundwater samples from the livestock and poultry farms in Xuzhou City were investigated in the present study. The concentrations of antibiotics in all matrices varied greatly among farms. Total concentrations of fluoroquinolones and macrolides were much higher than those ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Gu D,Feng Q,Guo C,Hou S,Lv J,Zhang Y,Yuan S,Zhao X

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the study was to evaluate the toxicity of trace elements to earthworms (Eisenia fetida) in recreational and military shooting range soils. The earthworms were exposed to soils; then mortality, growth, and reproduction endpoints were determined. In the recreational shooting range, the total Pb concentr...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Sujetovienė G,Česynaitė J

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify whether Oryzias congeners, including freshwater, brackish water, and marine medaka, would be useful models for evaluating environmental chemical effects in various aquatic ecosystems, we examined the influence of salinity on their embryo development. We also compared the toxicity values of the organotin com...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Horie Y,Kanazawa N,Suzuki A,Yonekura K,Chiba T

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amynthas agrestis and Metaphire hilgendorfi are being distributed across North America with unknown ecosystem impacts. Forest soils in urban areas sequester trace elements and earthworms may be bioaccumulating them. This study examined Cd, Cr, Co, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb, V, and Zn in soils and earthworm tissues at 28 urban fo...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Richardson JB

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phthalate diesters are used in personal care products, plastics, and pesticides, resulting in widespread human and wildlife exposure. Phthalate diesters leach out of these products and ultimately enter biological systems where they are quickly metabolized to phthalate monoesters and glucuronides. As such, phthalate mo...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Bartsch PW,Edwards TM,Brock JW

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Industrial activities conducted in Northern Canada have raised concerns among Indigenous communities regarding wildlife contamination and potential consequences for human health. Therefore, an investigation on the chemical (metals/metalloids) and biological (parasite) burden of adult walleye (Sandervitreus) and northe...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Matwee L,Pietrock M

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the provenance of anthropogenic lead, a major pollutant of surface sediments, was determined in Huainan Panji coal mining area. The lead concentrations and the pollution degree were investigated by the enrichment factor. Tessier five-step morphology extraction method was used to discuss its potential ha...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Zheng L,Liu X,Tang Q,Ou J

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pot experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of three additives - citric acid (CA), polyaspartic acid (PASP), and FeCl3 - on the phytoextraction efficiency of cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) by ryegrass (Lolium perenneL.) from artificially contaminated soils with different heavy metal concentrations. The result...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Zhang Y,Li F,Xu W,Ren J,Chen S,Shen K,Long Z

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the detection power of a gas chromatography mass spectrometer (GC-MS) for procymidone and chlorflurenol was significantly enhanced using switchable solvent liquid phase microextraction (SS-LPME) as a preconcentration tool. This was achieved by a comprehensive optimization of significant parameters to th...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Kapukıran F,Fırat M,Chormey DS,Bakırdere S,Özdoğan N

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glacierized mountain environments can preserve and release mercury (Hg) and play an important role in regional Hg cycling. In the Tibetan Plateau (TP), most glaciers have been retreating at unprecedented rate in recent decades, acting as one of the most active factors in regional hydrological cycling. In this mini-rev...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Zhang Q,Sun X,Sun S,Yin X,Huang J,Cong Z,Kang S

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microplastics (MP) are ubiquitous in the marine environment and have been shown to alter the behaviour of some species due to potential neurotoxic effect. However, very little is known on the effect of this stressor on behavioural responses of early and more vulnerable life stages. This study explores the effects of p...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Jacob H,Gilson A,Lanctôt C,Besson M,Metian M,Lecchini D

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents the results of long-term post-Chernobyl investigations of 134Cs and 137Cs activity concentrations in multifloral and chestnut honey sampled in northwest Croatia. For both radionuclides, the activity concentrations peaked in May 1986, decreasing exponentially until the mid-1990 s, when they fell und...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Franić Z,Branica G

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The washed and unwashed current (C) and previous year (C + 1) needles, branches and top soils of Pinus tabulaeformis trees were sampled at five sites Haitai industrial district (HT), Puji River (PJ), Fukang road (FK), Residential area (RA) and Baxian Mountain (BX) in Tianjin along an urban-rural gradient and analyzed ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Zhao R,Yang T,Shi C,Zhou M,Chen G,Shi F

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO NPs) were investigated in the midgut and fat body of Galleria mellonella. Fourth instar larvae were exposed to 10 µg Cu/L of CuO until becoming last instar larvae, and catalase (CAT), superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), glutathione-s-transferase (GST) an...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Sezer Tuncsoy B,Tuncsoy M,Gomes T,Sousa V,Teixeira MR,Bebianno MJ,Ozalp P

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malachite green, a multi-purpose dye induces cyto-toxicity upon its entry and bioaccumulation in tissues. A semi-static chronic (60 days) bioassay was conducted by exposing Cyprinus carpio to sublethal concentration of the dye and Emblica officinalis in four experimental groups viz control, malachite green, E. officin...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Jindal R,Sinha R

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has been performed in the southern Ecuadorian Amazon since the colonial period. However, its effects on fluvial systems have been poorly investigated. Thus, in order to calculate the normalized enrichment factors (NEF) of several heavy metals in fluvial sediments of the Zam...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Mora A,Jumbo-Flores D,González-Merizalde M,Bermeo-Flores SA,Alvarez-Figueroa P,Mahlknecht J,Hernández-Antonio A

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diets of Indigenous people rely on food and medicinal plants harvested directly from the land and there is increasing concern from Indigenous knowledge holders over changes to the appearance and flavor of wild harvested food and medicinal plants. We collected samples of muskrat root, considered an important medici...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Gray MA,Walker EM,Brooks C,deMarsh L

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Speciation of 238U, 210Po and 210Pb in six different types of Syrian soil (Entisols, Inceptisol, Aridisol, Mollisols, Vertisols and Rock outcrops) was studied using a four-step sequential extraction procedure. The binding nature of 238U, 210Po and 210Pb was correlated with soil properties including soil particles, pH,...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Al-Masri MS,Nashawati A,Amin Y,Al-Masri W,Al-Howary MA

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the levels of mercury (Hg) and nine organochlorine pesticides [OCPs: α-hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH), β-HCH, γ-HCH, δ-HCH, α-Endosulfan, β-Endosulfan, Endosulfan sulfate, p,p'-dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE) and p,p'-dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane (DDD)] in the terrestrial environment (moss and soil) an...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Subhavana KL,Qureshi A,Chakraborty P,Tiwari AK

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focused on evaluating the metal and metalloid contamination and associated risks in the two vegetables crops, coriander (Coriandrum sativum) and spinach (Spinacia oleracea) treated with three water regimes, canal water, groundwater and municipal wastewater. These vegetables are widely consumed by people and...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Khan ZI,Ugulu I,Ahmad K,Yasmeen S,Noorka IR,Mehmood N,Sher M

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different resilience concepts have different assumptions about system dynamics, which has implications for resilience-based environmental risk and impact assessment. Engineering resilience (recovery) dominates in the risk assessment literature but this definition does not account for the possibility of ecosystems to e...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Angeler DG,Allen CR,Garmestani A,Pope KL,Twidwell D,Bundschuh M

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytoremediation, a technique dependent on the heavy metal bioaccumulation and translocation in different parts of plants, is an efficient and environment friendly method for decontamination of soils from metals. In the present study, the bioaccumulation and translocation of heavy metals was analyzed in different part...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Kaur R,Bhatti SS,Singh S,Singh J,Singh S

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a comparative approach to investigate the effects of a copper-based pesticide (EarthTec® QZ) on embryos of an invasive snail (Bithynia tentaculata) and a native snail (Physa gyrina). Embryos were exposed to one of three treatments: control (0 mg/L Cu2+), low-dose (0.1 mg/L Cu2+), or high-dose (0.6 mg/L Cu2+), ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Carmosini N,Gillis R,Ismail A,Sandland GJ

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aquatic plant, Canna indica L. (Indian shoot) of Cannaceae family was investigated to assess cadmium scavenging potential at 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 and 150 mg Cd L-1 exposers. The results showed that Canna has considerable potential of cadmium accumulation, which was up to 58.69 and 10.13 mg Cd kg-1 dry weight in root...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Solanki P,Narayan M,Rabha AK,Srivastava RK

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed trace elements concentration in European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) from Brenne Natural Park (France). We sampled road-killed turtles (N = 46) to measure the concentrations of 4 non-essential (Ag, Cd, Hg, and Pb) and 10 essential (As, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Se, V, and Zn) elements in muscle, skin, liv...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Guillot H,Bonnet X,Bustamante P,Churlaud C,Trotignon J,Brischoux F

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy metal pollution of aquatic ecosystems is worldwide problem with consequences on the aquatic organisms. The concentrations of selected heavy metals (Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu, Cd and Pb) were determined in liver, kidney, gills, muscle and bone of barbel (Barbus rebeli) and chub (Squalius squalius) from the river Crn Drim in...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Jordanova M,Hristovski S,Musai M,Boškovska V,Rebok K,Dinevska-Ќovkarovska S,Melovski L

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focused on comparing the lethal and sublethal toxicity of water-accommodated fractions (WAF) and chemically enhanced WAF (CEWAF) of crude oil to zebrafish (Danio rerio) on early life stages (ELS). Results showed that the addition of GM-2 dispersant caused an increase in the levels of total petroleum hydroca...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Li X,Ding G,Xiong Y,Ma X,Fan Y,Xiong D

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phthalic acid esters (PAEs) are a group of chemical species, ubiquitously present in the environment and pose a serious risk to humans. In the present study, the average concentrations of PAEs in PM10 (particulate matter ≤ 10 µm) are reported at a densely populated site in Delhi. The average concentration of PAEs was ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Gupta S,Gadi R

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasound can be used to induce cell resonance and cavitation to inhibit cyanobacterial growth, but it can also lead to increase in dissolved nutrients because of cell disruption. This study investigated the process from cell inactivation to disruption of Microcystis aeruginosa. Algal cells were sonicated (at 35 kHz)...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Tan X,Shu X,Guo J,Parajuli K,Zhang X,Duan Z

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS), as a potential endocrine disrupting chemical, is widely detected in the environment, wildlife and human. Currently few studies have documented the effects of chronic PFOS exposure on thyroid in aquatic organisms and the underlying mechanisms are largely unknown. The present study ...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Chen J,Zheng L,Tian L,Wang N,Lei L,Wang Y,Dong Q,Huang C,Yang D

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trace metals concentrations were studied for three different seasons on four seaweed species (Halimeda gracilis, Padina pavonica, Sargassum swartzii and Turbinaria ornata) from Wandoor area of southern Andaman Island. Though diversified seaweed population records in the study area, the studied four species were predom...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Kaviarasan T,Gokul MS,Henciya S,Muthukumar K,Dahms HU,James RA

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many countries with incidence of malaria, including those surrounding Maputo Bay, use dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) to reduce mosquitoes. This study is the first to estimate the human health risk associated with consumption of marine fish from Maputo Bay contaminated with DDTs. The median for ∑DDTs was 3.8 n...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Thompson LA,Ikenaka Y,Yohannes YB,Ichise T,Ito G,Bortey-Sam N,van Vuren JJ,Wepener V,Smit NJ,Darwish WS,Nakayama SMM,Mizukawa H,Ishizuka M

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earthworms are bioindicators of soil pollution. The ecotoxicity of tailings from selected gold mines in South Africa was investigated utilizing Eisenia andrei bioassays and biomarkers. Samples were obtained from unrehabilitated, rehabilitated and naturally vegetated sites. Biomass, neutral red retention time (NRRT), s...

journal_title：Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

authors： Maboeta MS,Oladipo OG,Botha SM

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00