Urban areas face numerous provocations, such as air, water, and soil contamination. Additionally, urban lakes have beneficial services that contribute to sustainability. In aquatic ecosystems, X-ray fluorescence can provide complex answers regarding the presence of elements associated with environmental risk. The study aimed screen different potentials (critical raw materials—CRMs; toxic; poten...

In June 2008, a surveillance study for metals in honeybees was performed in the Netherlands. Randomly, 150 apiaries were selected. In each apiary, five colonies were sampled. Per apiary, the hive samples were pooled. The apiary sample was analysed for Al, As, Ba, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Li, Mn, Mo, Ni, Sb, Se, Sn, Sr, Ti, V and Zn. All metals could be detected in all apiaries. As, Li, Sb, Sn and V were...

A complex approach for the environment health assessment integrating information on contaminants levels registered in environment compartments and bioindication-based estimates is developed and applied to two studies carried out at sites with different scenarios of long-term impact. The environment state is assessed at the territory of a nuclear waste storage facility, Obninsk, Russia, and in t...

This study evaluated the relationship between abiotic flow characteristics and habitat quality. Habitat quality was assessed using Instream Flow Incremental Methodology (IFIM), which uses bioindication. Brown trout selected as a bioindicator because of its sensitivity to morphological changes occurrence in sufficient reference reaches. The correlation stream area-weighted suitability (AWS), rep...

Water ferns of the Salviniaceae family are successfully used for bioremediation and bioindication contaminated waters. Due to intensive propagation they able produce a great volume biomass enriched with natural plant growth regulators. Simultaneously, water have become an impediment use resources through fast spread. Their development is under control phytohormones, which main chemical messenge...

A group of 55 scientists from 20 countries met for a three days symposium on testate amoebae in the French city of Monbéliard from the 14th to the 17th of September 2009. This meeting follows the previous ISTA meeting held in Antwerp, Belgium in 2006 (Warner and Beyens 2007). The number of attendees, countries represented, talks (30), and posters (28) presented all increased significantly since...

Functional traits (FT) offer a new framework to understand the ecology of organisms and overcome taxonomic difficulties that currently limit the study of minute soil taxa. FT are likely to be selected by environmental filters and hence they may provide more direct information on ecosystem characteristics than the species composition of a community. We tested the potential of testate amoeba (TA)...

Field and laboratory research has repeatedly shown that free-living soil nematodes differ in their sensitivity to soil pollution. In this paper, we analyze whether nematode genera proved sensitive or tolerant toward heavy metals and organic pollutants in six long-term field experiments. We discuss overlaps between nematode physiological responses to heavy metals and to organic pollutants, which...