Use of Land Snails (Pulmonata) for Monitoring Copper Pollution in Terrestrial Ecosystems

Nica, Dragoş; Bordean, Despina-Maria; Borozan, Aurica Breica; Gergen, I.; Bura, Marian; Banatean-Dunea, Ioan

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“…Variables for which the VIP scores are less than 0.8 are regarded to be small [33], and therefore, one can conclude that copper and zinc concentrations in soil and nettle leaves are contributing the most to trace metal accumulation pattern in land snails (Figure 4a). These findings are consistent with land snail physiology, wherein copper is a key player in metabolic activities [34]. …”

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A novel exploratory chemometric approach to environmental monitorring by combining block clustering with Partial Least Square (PLS) analysis

Nica

Bordean

Peţ

et al. 2013

Chemistry Central Journal

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BackgroundGiven the serious threats posed to terrestrial ecosystems by industrial contamination, environmental monitoring is a standard procedure used for assessing the current status of an environment or trends in environmental parameters. Measurement of metal concentrations at different trophic levels followed by their statistical analysis using exploratory multivariate methods can provide meaningful information on the status of environmental quality. In this context, the present paper proposes a novel chemometric approach to standard statistical methods by combining the Block clustering with Partial least square (PLS) analysis to investigate the accumulation patterns of metals in anthropized terrestrial ecosystems. The present study focused on copper, zinc, manganese, iron, cobalt, cadmium, nickel, and lead transfer along a soil-plant-snai food chain, and the hepatopancreas of the Roman snail (Helix pomatia) was used as a biological end-point of metal accumulation.ResultsBlock clustering deliniates between the areas exposed to industrial and vehicular contamination. The toxic metals have similar distributions in the nettle leaves and snail hepatopancreas. PLS analysis showed that (1) zinc and copper concentrations at the lower trophic levels are the most important latent factors that contribute to metal accumulation in land snails; (2) cadmium and lead are the main determinants of pollution pattern in areas exposed to industrial contamination; (3) at the sites located near roads lead is the most threatfull metal for terrestrial ecosystems.ConclusionThere were three major benefits by applying block clustering with PLS for processing the obtained data: firstly, it helped in grouping sites depending on the type of contamination. Secondly, it was valuable for identifying the latent factors that contribute the most to metal accumulation in land snails. Finally, it optimized the number and type of data that are best for monitoring the status of metallic contamination in terrestrial ecosystems exposed to different kinds of anthropic polution.

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A novel exploratory chemometric approach to environmental monitorring by combining block clustering with Partial Least Square (PLS) analysis

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Bordean

Peţ

et al. 2013

Chemistry Central Journal

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“…Snails have been shown to exert a strong degree of homeostatic regulation of Cu (Dallinger et al 2005;Nica et al 2013), which is consistent with the normal distributions of Cu concentrations observed in the present study (Fig. 2).…”

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“…Interest in the potential use of terrestrial invertebrates as biomonitors has increased in the past few decades (see for instance Laskowski and Hopkin 1996;Hamers et al 2004;Nica et al 2013;Staunton et al 2014). Slugs are one of the most commonly used types of gastropods because of their wide distribution and generally low mobility, and they have been used to characterize levels of contamination in terrestrial environments (Popham and D'Auria 1980).…”

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On the use of Arion ater to biomonitor environmental pollution by Cd, Cu, Fe, Mn and Zn, with a special insight into the population variability

Crespo

Bolón

Aboal

et al. 2015

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The suitability of Arion ater as a biomonitor of Cd, Cu, Fe, Mn and Zn was assessed. Individual specimens were collected from 22 sampling sites. Slugs from 3 of the sites were analysed individually, whereas the slugs from the other sites were pooled to make a composite sample for each site. The tissue burdens did not differ between individuals from contaminated and uncontaminated sites, and there was no gradient of bioaccumulation of any of the elements in the surroundings of the smelter. Analysis of the individual specimens from the 3 sites revealed very high coefficients of variation for the metal concentrations. As a result of the high level of variation, large numbers of slugs are required to produce a low error in characterizing the mean concentration at each site. Furthermore, as a consequence of the similar mean concentrations and high variability, large numbers of samples are needed to detect significant differences between pairs of sites.

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“…Based on the homogeneity of response, Cu levels in the hepatopancreas seem to be more sensitive to short-term exposure to very low, but environmentally-relevant dietary Cd doses than cadmium accumulation itself. This may be related to the special needs of these invertebrates for copper (Nica et al, 2013).…”

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“…Mature specimens were given low, but environmentallyrelevant dietary Cd doses for 28 days and TM concentrations were determined at 14 and 28 days. Copper plays a central role for molluscan metabolism (Nica et al, 2013)…”

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Short-term effects of very low dose cadmium feeding on copper, manganese and iron homeostasis: A gastropod perspective

Nica

Drăghici

Andrica

et al. 2019

Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology

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Use of Land Snails (Pulmonata) for Monitoring Copper Pollution in Terrestrial Ecosystems

Cited by 12 publications

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A novel exploratory chemometric approach to environmental monitorring by combining block clustering with Partial Least Square (PLS) analysis

A novel exploratory chemometric approach to environmental monitorring by combining block clustering with Partial Least Square (PLS) analysis

On the use of Arion ater to biomonitor environmental pollution by Cd, Cu, Fe, Mn and Zn, with a special insight into the population variability

Short-term effects of very low dose cadmium feeding on copper, manganese and iron homeostasis: A gastropod perspective

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