Effects of metal pollution on survival and physiological responses in Carabus (Chaetocarabus) lefebvrei (Coleoptera, Carabidae)

Distribution of toxic elements between biotic and abiotic components of terrestrial ecosystem along an urbanization gradient: Soil, leaf litter and ground beetles

“…This result also demonstrates that the food preference and breeding may cause differences between toxic element concentrations in different ground beetle species. Similar to our findings Talarico et al (2014) also found high BAF values for As and Hg with study of C. lefebvrei, which indicated that this species was a good indicator of As and Hg.…”

“…Jelaska et al (2007) showed that the internal Cu and Zn concentration also correlated with the elemental concentration of soil. Studied about metal kinetics of ground beetles indicated that metals probably due to the efficient detoxification by excretion (Bednarska et al, 2013;Janssen et al, 1991;Kramarz, 1999;Mozdzer et al, 2003;Talarico et al, 2014). At the same time, ground beetles as holometabolous insects are present in the soil during their development phases, so they are poor metal accumulator (Cortet et al, 1999).…”

Structural and functional alterations in Malpighian tubules as biomarkers of environmental pollution: synopsis and prospective

“…Detoxification mechanisms at cellular level include the accumulation of metal‐binding proteins (e.g. metallothioneins; Dallinger, ) and the precipitation of metals as intracellular electron‐dense granules (Köhler, ; Lipovšek Delakorda et al, ) or spherites (Ballan‐Dufrançais, ; Lipovšek et al, ; Talarico et al, ). X‐ray microanalysis performed on ultrathin sections of Malpighian tubules has shown that spherites and granules are composed of a set of metals (see Ballan‐Dufrançais, , for a complete review of analysed species).…”

Contribution of Volcanic and Fumarolic Emission to the Aerosol in Marine Atmosphere in the Central Mediterranean Sea: Results from Med-Oceanor 2017 Cruise Campaign

“…The study and identification of events affecting air quality are complex tasks in which data handling strategies including aerosol maps, back-trajectory analysis, and receptor modeling support the laboratory analysis on the composition of particulate matter (PM). In this respect, the use of mass spectrometry technologies has been giving a considerable impulse allowing in-depth analyses and characterization of the PM [3] as well as other environmental matrices [4,5]. Natural contributions to the levels of ambient air particulate matter (PM) and their speciation in Europe have been characterized using different approaches in many studies [2,[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13].…”