the bahía blanca estuary, located at the atlantic coast of argentina, includes a governmental nature reserve to protect biodiversity, lands and water; however, as the process of industrialization and urbanization is stepping rapidly at the neighbouring area, the potential increase in contaminant loads is a serious concern. after several contaminants surveys at the estuary, no single study has b...

Eggs of terrestrial bird species have often been used to biomonitor both legacy and emerging anthropogenic contaminants, such as perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs). However, few, if any, studies examined whether results obtained in a given model can be generalized across species. Therefore, we compared potential differences egg PFAA profile concentrations between two widely studied passerine species,...

Carpet-forming moss species are useful tools for monitoring the atmospheric deposition of pollutants like metals, organic compounds, nitrogen, and more recently, microplastics. Even with a dense sampling scheme, biomonitoring could extend environmental study to national and/or continental scales. Moss (Hypnum cupressiforme) was used as biomonitor assess metals in entire territory Albania identi...

As metals and metal compounds have impact on human health, it is important to identify biomonitor plants that can be used monitor their levels in environmental biological samples. In this study, two different (Populus nigra Cedrus libani) were as bioindicators. This was evaluated by monitoring heavy pollution Kırşehir province with these plant samples collected from the vicinity of casting fact...

Growth rate of individually tagged dogwhelks Nucella lapillus (L.) was measured in free-living individuals at 3 sites of differing heavy metal contamination in the Firth of Clyde, west Scotland. Condition index (CI), concentrations of metals (Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn), metallothionein (MT), RNA (the RNA/protein ratio) and glycogen were also measured. In general, the marine environments of Gourock and ...

background: anzali wetland has been subjected to high levels of pollution due to contamination from several industrial sites in addition to agricultural chemicals. mussels have been widely used for monitoring pollution in aquatic ecosystems, because they, as filter feeders, bioaccumulate pollutants. therefore we decided to evaluate anodonta cygnea for its application as a bio-monitor for copper...

The article presents the analysis of parameters biomonitor species ‒ small-scaled scorpion fish at dif-ferent organization levels as part study current status and their habitat conditions in a coastal zone Sevastopol. In spite similarity size mass values caught different bays there has been found regularity size: Balaklavskaya Bay > Kruglaya Streletskaya Bay. indexes gills liver Scorpaena po...

Amongst other threats, the world’s oceans are faced with man-made pollution, including an increasing number of microparticulate pollutants. Sponges, aquatic filter-feeding animals, able to incorporate fine foreign particles, and thus may be a potential bioindicator for To address this question, 15 coral reef demosponges sampled around Bangka Island (North Sulawesi, Indonesia) were analyzed natu...