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Ecotoxicological tools in support of the aims of the European Water Framework Directive: A step towards a more holistic ecosystem-based approach by Monica Martinez-Haro; Pelayo Acevedo; Antónia Juliana Pais-Costa; João M. Neto; Luis R. Vieira; Natalia Ospina-Alvarez; Mark A. Taggart; Lúcia Guilhermino; Rui Ribeiro; João Carlos Marques is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Ecotoxicological tools in support of the aims of the European Water Framework Directive: A step towards a more holistic ecosystem-based approach about?
The Water Framework Directive (WFD) aims to attain ‘good quality’ status for all European water bodies through the achievement of good ecological status. To this purpose, the WFD advocates the creation of cost-effective monitoring tools to deliver appropriate data that help to create links between chemical and ecological indicators, as those from ecotoxicological research. Here, it was evaluated whether the integration of ecotoxicological tools, as bioassays and biomarkers, did (or did not) strengthen the robustness of the assessment of the ecological status obtained through well stablished biotic indices in two Atlantic estuaries. For that, a battery of in-situ bioassays, including five macroinvertebrate species (the crab Carcinus maenas, the amphipod Echinogammarus marinus, the isopod Cyathura carinata, the snail Peringia ulvae and the polychaete Hediste diversicolor, each one providing complementary information regarding key ecological functions) and a set of biomarkers, was used. In addition, the concentrations of heavy metals in sediments, and in macroalgae (Fucus), were determined, along with sediment granulometric, water physicochemical and nutrients characterization. We sho
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- Author
- Monica Martinez-Haro; Pelayo Acevedo; Antónia Juliana Pais-Costa; João M. Neto; Luis R. Vieira; Natalia Ospina-Alvarez; Mark A. Taggart; Lúcia Guilhermino; Rui Ribeiro; João Carlos Marques
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)