Effects of Pollution on Freshwater Organisms

Abstract

This review includes works published in the general scientific literature during 2009 on the effects of anthropogenic pollutants on freshwater organisms. It begins with two broad sections: research reviews and broad field studies and surveys. This is followed by reviews of research categorized in sections to reflect the pollutant class. These sections include wastewater, stormwater and non‐point source pollution, nutrients, metals, persistent organic pollutants, pharmaceuticals, endocrine disruptors, pesticides, petroleum hydrocarbons and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), ionic liquids, and nanomaterials. The final section includes works describing innovations in the field of freshwater pollution research.

Assessment of zooplankton-based eco-sustainable wastewater treatment at laboratory scale

“…Daphnia is a planktonic crustacean belonging to the Cladocera order that is widely used for water ecotoxicology tests (Häder and Erzinger, 2017;Martins et al, 2007;Harmon and Wiley, 2010). However, this zooplankton can also be exploited for wastewater treatment purposes given that it is a filter feeder organism whose diet is based on ingesting algae and other organic detritus, including protists and bacteria (Ebert, 2005;Gliwicz, 2008).…”

An assessment of a tropical urban stream using benthic macroinvertebrates as a bio-indicator in Muara Angke, Jakarta, Indonesia

“…Individuals from at least two distinct species were identified at various points around study site 5, suggesting a number of different ecological niches are available for this pollution sensitive group of creatures, and decreases the likelihood that their abundance can be explained simply by an unusual surplus of a particular food source, for example. Similarly, the presence of crustacean taxa Atydaeand Parathelphusidae, both dependant on gill systems to breathe, indicates an improved water quality given the sensitivities of these species to pollutants, suspended particulates and oxygen (Harmon 2008).…”

Emerging Pollutants

“…Processes ; Activated Sludge and Other Aerobic Suspended Culture Processes (Schmit et al, 2010); Effects of Pollution on Freshwater Organisms (Harmon et al, 2010); and the Fate of Environmental…”