In situ exposures using caged organisms: a multi-compartment approach to detect aquatic toxicity and bioaccumulation

Burton, G.A.; Greenberg, Marc S.; Rowland, Carolyn D.; Irvine, Cameron; Lavoie, Daniel R.; Brooker, John A.; Moore, Laurie; Raymer, Delia F.N.; McWilliam, Ruth A.

doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2004.07.008

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“…These include field-based species sensitivity distributions for both chemical contaminated sediments, noncontaminated TSS, temperature, salinity, and sediment burial [207][208][209][210][211][212][213], improved exposure models of clean and contaminated soils and sediments [214,215], stressor toxicity identification and interactions [9,184,216,217], in situ experimental exposures including biomimetic monitoring [4,218], biological trait-based analysis [219], and data analyses methods for discerning reference versus impairment and stressor-effect relationships [16,220].…”

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“…These studies have found that the duration, intensity, and frequency of exposure to suspended sediment are important and have resulted in the development of water quality guidelines for total suspended solids [55]. Daphnia magna and some other daphnid species have been found to be some of the more sensitive species to elevated TSS concentrations [9,[74][75][76]. However, these lentic species are less commonly found in lotic systems and may be an inappropriate surrogate for stream environments.…”

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“…An exception to this is directly below mining operations where larger grained mine tailings may exist, or where periphyton have accumulated high metal concentrations from the overlying water [81][82][83][84]. The dominant contaminant exposure pathways for aquatic organisms in high-energy systems will tend to be runoff, outfalls, upwellings and downwellings, and food [9,75,[85][86][87][88][89][90][91][92]. In low-energy, depositional environments, bed sediments become a major route of exposure for many benthic organisms.…”

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“…Determining the impact of sediments on an ecosystem requires more than asking whether sediment quality guidelines (e.g., probable no-effect concentrations) are exceeded, whether a chemical-specific (or sediment mass) clean-up goal is met, or whether sediment toxicity exists [1,4]. Accurate assessments of ecosystem and sediment quality integrate multiple methods, each with their strengths and limitations [1,[5][6][7][8][9][10]. Even when a weight-ofevidence (WoE)-based environmental quality assessment has been conducted using multiple lines-of-evidence, study designs are often disjointed and do not produce powerful tests of stressor causality [8,11].…”

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Assessing contaminated sediments in the context of multiple stressors

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Johnston

2010

Enviro Toxic and Chemistry

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Abstract-Sediments have a major role in ecosystem functioning but can also act as physical or chemical stressors. Anthropogenic activities may change the chemical constituency of sediments and the rate, frequency, and extent of sediment transport, deposition, and resuspension. The importance of sediments as stressors will depend on site ecosystem attributes and the magnitude and preponderance of co-occurring stressors. Contaminants are usually of greater ecological consequence in human-modified, depositional environments, where other anthropogenic stressors often co-occur. Risk assessments and restoration strategies should better consider the role of chemical contamination in the context of multiple stressors. There have been numerous advances in the temporal and spatial characterization of stressor exposures and quantification of biological responses. Contaminated sediments causing biological impairment tend to be patchy, whereas more pervasive anthropogenic stressors, such as alterations to habitat and flow, physical disturbance, and nutrient addition, may drive large-scale ecosystem responses. A systematic assessment of relevant ecosystem attributes and reference conditions can assist in understanding the importance of sediments in the context of other stressors. Experimental manipulations then allow for the controlled study of dominant stressors and the establishment of causal links. This approach will result in more effective management of watersheds and waterways. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 2010;29:262529: -264329: . # 2010

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“…However, in situ bioassays reflect ecological reality and can account for cumulative and synergistic effects, which is why they are used as part of integrative assessment studies to facilitate the taking of environmental decisions for specific impacted systems (Adams, 2003;Burton et al, 2005).…”

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A manipulative field experiment to evaluate an integrative methodology for assessing sediment pollution in estuarine ecosystems

Sanz‐Lázaro

Marín

2009

Science of The Total Environment

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The assessment of sediment contamination is of crucial importance for the management of estuarine ecosystems. Environmental risk assessment of oil pollution must be specific to these ecosystems because of their unique toxicant bioavailability dynamics, which is not comparable with that of other ecosystems where the environmental parameters are less variable. The goal of this work was to test in two European estuarine areas (Ria de Aveiro, Portugal; La Manga, Spain) whether the common methodology used to evaluate sediment pollution in marine sediment (amphipod toxicity tests and community structure analysis) is suited to these physico-chemically unique systems. Manipulative field experiments were conducted at three oil concentration levels, to compare resulting changes in community structure with laboratory and in situ amphipod toxicity tests carried out with native amphipod species Corophium multisetosum (Atlatic area) and Microdeutopus gryllotalpa (Mediterranean area).The impact of the toxicant was reflected in the community structure and toxicity tests, both of which were correlated with oil concentration. These results point to this methodology being a reliable tool for assessing and monitoring pollution in estuarine areas.

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Experimental quantification of multiple point‐source pollution effects on juvenile freshwater mussels in a stream exposure gradient

Barák

Jahelková

Simon

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Aquatic Conservation

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1. Population declines in freshwater mussels (Unionida) resulting from failed recruitment, together with episodic water pollution potentially leading to juvenile mussel mortality, are often suspected (but rarely well documented), even in the most strictly protected aquatic areas.2. The aim of this study was to test a robust design for an in situ investigation of the water pollution effects on juvenile freshwater pearl mussel (FPM, Margaritifera margaritifera) in the protected Malše River (Czech Republic), which acts as a model system. A 30-km river reach was delineated to include a section with previously recorded episodic multiple point-source pollution events, as well as downstream and upstream control sections. Juvenile FPMs in open water mesh cages were exposed to river water at 15 sites in 42 exposure units (342 juveniles in individual chambers), and their survival and shell growth were assessed after a 33-day period of low-flow and high-temperature conditions. The main physicochemical indicators related to municipal water pollution were measured weekly.3. The study results confirmed significantly impaired water quality indicated by episodic changes in total ammonia nitrogen (up to 1.037 mg L À1 ), total phosphorus (up to 0.516 mg L À1 ) and oxygen saturation (down to 75.0%) in the impaired section. While the growth of FPM (corrected for temperature effects) was significantly increased (shell length increment: 32.7 ± 9.7%impaired, 26.4 ± 10.0%control sections; mean ± SD), the survival (mean ± SD) of juveniles was significantly decreased in the impaired section (86.4 ± 12.5%) compared with the control sections (97.4 ± 5.7%).4. This study has demonstrated the capacity of applying a caged bivalve model at a fine spatial scale within a longitudinal river profile to document the impacts of water pollution. The methodology applied here may provide a useful tool for assessing and improving the level of water quality management and is applicable in FPM action plans and stream biotope conservation in general.

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In situ exposures using caged organisms: a multi-compartment approach to detect aquatic toxicity and bioaccumulation

Cited by 105 publications

References 9 publications

Assessing contaminated sediments in the context of multiple stressors

Assessing contaminated sediments in the context of multiple stressors

A manipulative field experiment to evaluate an integrative methodology for assessing sediment pollution in estuarine ecosystems

Experimental quantification of multiple point‐source pollution effects on juvenile freshwater mussels in a stream exposure gradient

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