Ecotoxicology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown
Опубликована: Ноя. 29, 2024
Язык: Английский
Water, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 16(11), С. 1483 - 1483
Опубликована: Май 23, 2024
The inheritance of historic human-induced disruption and the fierceness its impact change aquatic ecosystems. This work reviews some main stressors on freshwater ecosystems, focusing their effects, threats, risks, protection, conservation, management elements. An overview is provided water protection linked to stressors: solar ultraviolet radiation, thermal pollution, nanoparticles, radioactive salinization, nutrients, sedimentation, drought, extreme floods, fragmentation, pesticides, war terrorism, algal blooms, invasive plants, riparian vegetation, fish. Altogether, these build an exceptionally composite background that are continuously changing ecosystems diminishing or even destroying capability create maintain ongoing natural healthy products essential services humans. Environmental human civilization sustainability cannot exist without proper all over planet; this specific impossible if widespread studied not deeply understood structurally functionally. Without considering each synergisms, Earth’s doomed in terms both quantitative qualitative aspects.
Язык: Английский
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Science, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 385(6712)
Опубликована: Авг. 29, 2024
Genetically modified (GM) crops have been adopted by some of the world's leading agricultural nations, but full extent their environmental impact remains largely unknown. Although concerns regarding direct effects GM declined, led to indirect changes in practices, including pesticide use, expansion, and cropping patterns, with profound implications. Recent studies paint a nuanced picture these impacts, mixed crop adoption on biodiversity, deforestation, human health that vary trait geographic scale. New or gene-edited different traits would likely impacts.
Язык: Английский
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Environmental Sciences Europe, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 36(1)
Опубликована: Март 17, 2024
Abstract The historical perspective on the rapid biodegradation of pesticides as a mitigating factor in environmental risk assessment is reexamined through example glyphosate and its implications for freshwater biodiversity. Commonly employed standardized methods by national agencies assessing predominantly rely single-species tests, overlooking intricate nature ecosystems. Glyphosate, one most widely used marketed purported biodegradability, often perceived relatively innocuous. However, degradation releases phosphorus into environment, inducing trophic state shift water systems towards more eutrophic conditions, consequently affecting quality. These findings highlight cascading ecological repercussions biodegradation, driving proliferation specific aquatic organisms, such picocyanobacteria metaphyton, resulting alteration ecosystem structure dynamics. study explores challenges posed commercial pesticide formulations investigates consequences interactions with anthropogenic factors. A case point interaction invasive mussel Limnoperna fortunei , exacerbating overall scenario. framework analyzed conventional notion that inherently neutral or positive event. results underscore necessity reassessing role itself impact assessments pesticides.
Язык: Английский
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Frontiers in Public Health, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 12
Опубликована: Июнь 12, 2024
Pollution has emerged as a significant threat to humanity, necessitating thorough evaluation of its impacts. As result, various methods for human biomonitoring have been proposed vital tools assessing, managing, and mitigating exposure risks. Among these methods, urine stands out the most commonly analyzed biological sample primary matrix studies.
Язык: Английский
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Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 104643 - 104643
Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025
Язык: Английский
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Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 291, С. 117673 - 117673
Опубликована: Фев. 1, 2025
The continuous discharge of agrochemicals used in intensive agriculture contaminates aquatic systems, harming biota and their processes. Although mobile organisms can avoid exposure by moving to less-affected habitats, capacity be altered pollutant exposure. Populations with a previous disturbance history, which show lower ability respond subsequent stressors, are defined as vulnerable. Therefore, this study investigated the so far unknown escape vulnerable zooplankton population previously exposed contaminated environment. To end, agrochemically driven vulnerability was induced populations Daphnia magna sublethal concentrations glyphosate. Vulnerability verified using starvation test significant differences were observed between control history. Both Control Vulnerable assessed for avoidance exposing them glyphosate gradient Heterogeneous Multiple-Habitat Assay System (HeMHAS). showed rapid reaction from beginning assay, rates increasing over 24 h, while unable habitats up h. we concluded that have habitats. In heterogeneously is responsible differential spatial distribution affected species, impacts ecosystem structure. Additionally, its effect on behaviour may affect functioning through populations.
Язык: Английский
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Microorganisms, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 13(3), С. 651 - 651
Опубликована: Март 13, 2025
Herbicides are the most employed pesticides in agriculture worldwide; among them, glyphosate is successful herbicide molecule history. The extensive use of has been related to environmental pollution and toxic effects on non-target organisms. Effective remediation treatment alternatives must be developed reduce presence its adverse effects. Bioremediation using microorganisms proposed as a feasible alternative for treating pollution; due this, identifying characterizing capable biodegrading key task bioremediation polluted sites by this herbicide. This study characterized resistance profile degradation capacity bacterial strain Caballeronia zhejiangensis CEIB S4-3. According results growth inhibition assays agar plates, C. S4-3 can resist exposure high concentrations glyphosate, up 1600 mg/L glyphosate-based (GBH) formulation, 12,000 analytical-grade molecule. In assay liquid media, resisted all evaluated (25–400 mg/L). After 48 h exposure, GBH caused important (>80%) at between 100 400 mg/L, while inhibitions below 15% tested concentrations. Finally, was degrading 60% supplemented culture media (50 mg/L), when used sole carbon source, twelve hours; moreover, also degrade primary metabolite aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA). Genomic analysis revealed genes associated with two reported metabolic pathways degradation, sarcosine AMPA pathways. first report metabolism genus strain. from investigation demonstrate that exhibits significant potential biodegradation, suggesting applicability strategies targeting contaminant.
Язык: Английский
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Aquatic Ecology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown
Опубликована: Март 25, 2025
Язык: Английский
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Toxics, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 12(4), С. 257 - 257
Опубликована: Март 30, 2024
The occurrence of the market-leading glyphosate active ingredient in surface waters is a globally observed phenomenon. Although co-formulants pesticide formulations were considered inactive components from aspects required main biological effect pesticide, several studies have proven high individual toxicity formulating agents, as well enhanced combined ingredients and other components. Since majority are present form chemical mixtures our environment, possible between particularly important. To assess phytotoxicity components, was tested pure (glyphosate isopropylammonium salt) herbicide (Roundup Classic Medallon Premium) formulated with mixture polyethoxylated tallow amines (POEA) or alkyl polyglucosides (APG), respectively. order acute follows for Roundup Classic: < formulation POEA. However, following demonstrated Premium: APG. Increased photosynthetic activity detected after exposure to (1.5–5.8 mg glyphosate/L 0.5–2.2 POEA/L) its individually (glyphosate: 13–27.2 mg/L, POEA: 0.6–4.8 mg/L), which indicates hormetic effects. decreased at higher concentrations POEA (19.2 mg/L) (11.6–50.6 glyphosate/L). Differences sensitivity selected algae species and, addition presented glyphosate-based herbicides. Both inhibitory stimulating effects can adversely affect aquatic ecosystems water quality waters.
Язык: Английский
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Environments, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 11(7), С. 137 - 137
Опубликована: Июнь 28, 2024
Pesticides affect biota inside and outside agricultural fields due to their intrinsic mode of action. This study investigated whether pesticide active substances (AS) approved for conventional agriculture in Europe differ ecotoxicity from AS organic agriculture. The evaluation was based on official ecotoxicological data surrogate honeybee, bird, earthworm species, which also serve as a reference environmental risk assessments the authorization process. In October 2022, 268 chemical-synthetic 179 nature-based were listed EU Pesticide Database. Ecotoxicological only available 254 use 110 results showed higher AS: 79% (201 AS), 64% (163 AS) 91% (230 moderately acutely toxic honeybees, birds, earthworms, respectively, compared 44% (48 14% (15 36% (39 We have considered potential ecotoxicities individual this assessment; actual exposure field, where multiple formulations with other chemicals (including impurities) are applied, will be different. Nevertheless, these emphasize that an increase would reduce burden biodiversity associated ecosystem services.
Язык: Английский
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