Teklu, Berhan M Hailu, Amare Wiegant, Daniel A Scholten, Bernice S Van den Brink, Paul J
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The area around Lake Ziway in Ethiopia is going through a major agricultural transformation with both small-scale farmers and large horticultural companies using pesticides and fertilisers at an increased rate. To be able to understand how this influences the water quality of Lake Ziway, water quality data was gathered to study the dynamics of pest...
Alves, Paulo Roger Lopes da Silva, Evandro Barbosa Cardoso, Elke Jurandy Bran Nogueira Alleoni, Luís Reynaldo Ferracciú
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High levels of heavy metals in soils may impose serious impacts on terrestrial organisms. In Brazil, the prevention values for evaluating the ecological risk of these elements are based only on soil chemical analyses and/or on data from ecotoxicological assays performed in soils of temperate regions. However, the attributes of the Brazilian highly-...
Daam, Michiel A Rico, Andreu
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The aquatic risk assessment of pesticides in tropical areas has often been disputed to rely on toxicity data generated from tests performed with temperate species. Given the differences in ecosystem structure between temperate and tropical ecosystems, test species other than those used in temperate regions have been proposed as surrogates for tropi...
Khatikarn, Jidapa Satapornvanit, Kriengkrai Price, Oliver R Van den Brink, Paul J
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The antimicrobial triclosan (TCS) has been detected in household wastewaters (untreated and treated) and receiving environments across the globe. The toxic effects of TCS on temperate standard aquatic test organisms have been widely reported with microalgae being the most sensitive. However, environmental differences between tropical and temperate ...
Rämö, Robert A van den Brink, Paul J Ruepert, Clemens Castillo, Luisa E Gunnarsson, Jonas S
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This study assesses the ecological risks (ERA) of pesticides to aquatic organisms in the River Madre de Dios (RMD), which receives surface runoff water from banana, pineapple, and rice plantations on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Water samples collected over 2 years at five sites in the RMD revealed a total of 26 pesticides. Their toxicity ris...
Tam, Nguyen Thanh Berg, Håkan Van Cong, Nguyen
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Organophosphates (e.g. chlorpyrifos ethyl) and carbamates (e.g. fenobucarb) are commonly used to control a wide range of pests in rice fields of the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. This study assesses the combined effect of chlorpyrifos ethyl (CPF) and fenobucarb (F), applied at concentrations used by rice farmers, on the brain acetylcholinesterase (AChE)...
Wu, Hanxiang Marhadour, Sophie Lei, Zhi-Wei Yang, Wen Marivingt-Mounir, Cécile Bonnemain, Jean-Louis Chollet, Jean-François
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Producing quality food in sufficient quantity while using less agrochemical inputs will be one of the great challenges of the twenty-first century. One way of achieving this goal is to greatly reduce the doses of plant protection compounds by improving the targeting of pests to eradicate. Therefore, we developed a vectorization strategy to confer p...
Wu, Ying Cui, Erping Zuo, Yiru Cheng, Weixiao Chen, Hong
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The prevalence and persistence of antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is of growing interest, and residual sludge is among the main sources for the release of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). Moreover, heavy metals concentrated in dense microbial communities of sludge could potentially favor co-selection of ARGs an...
Karimullina, Elina M Mikhailovskaya, Lyudmila N Antonova, Elena V Pozolotina, Vera N
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The evaluation of radiation exposure in 14 species of herbaceous plants from the East-Ural Radioactive Trace (EURT) zone was performed, using the ERICA Tool, v. 1.2. Recent (up to 2015) levels of radionuclide activity concentration were measured in soil and vegetative plant mass. 239,240Pu content was used for the first time to estimate external do...
Ren, Miao Liu, Haiyang Qu, Jiao Zhang, Yanan Ma, Ying Yuan, Xing
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The graphene (GR)/TiO2 membrane was prepared by the sol-gel method and coated on the indium tin oxide (ITO) conductive glass, which showed high and stable photo(-electro)-catalytic activities to rhodamine B (Rh-B) in water. Characterization results showed that the GR was dispersed and wrapped in the needle-like TiO2. With GR/TiO2 membrane and simul...
