Environmental risk assessment of propranolol in the groundwater bodies of Europe

Lorenzo, Tiziana Di; Cicco, Mattia Di; Censo, Davide Di; Galante, A.; Boscaro, Francesca; Messana, G.; Galassi, Diana M. P.

doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2019.113189

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“…Concern for EOCs in GW is expanding globally [71]. EOCs are natural or synthetic substances, not routinely monitored, that can induce known or suspected undesirable effects on humans and ecosystems [72,73]. EOCs' family includes different classes of compounds such as disinfectants, industrials, pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and illicit drugs, some of which are being detected in groundwater with concentrations exceeding 0.1 µg L −1 [74,75].…”

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Characteristics, Main Impacts, and Stewardship of Natural and Artificial Freshwater Environments: Consequences for Biodiversity Conservation

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Pringle

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In this overview (introductory article to a special issue including 14 papers), we consider all main types of natural and artificial inland freshwater habitas (fwh). For each type, we identify the main biodiversity patterns and ecological features, human impacts on the system and environmental issues, and discuss ways to use this information to improve stewardship. Examples of selected key biodiversity/ecological features (habitat type): narrow endemics, sensitive (groundwater and GDEs); crenobionts, LIHRes (springs); unidirectional flow, nutrient spiraling (streams); naturally turbid, floodplains, large-bodied species (large rivers); depth-variation in benthic communities (lakes); endemism and diversity (ancient lakes); threatened, sensitive species (oxbow lakes, SWE); diverse, reduced littoral (reservoirs); cold-adapted species (Boreal and Arctic fwh); endemism, depauperate (Antarctic fwh); flood pulse, intermittent wetlands, biggest river basins (tropical fwh); variable hydrologic regime—periods of drying, flash floods (arid-climate fwh). Selected impacts: eutrophication and other pollution, hydrologic modifications, overexploitation, habitat destruction, invasive species, salinization. Climate change is a threat multiplier, and it is important to quantify resistance, resilience, and recovery to assess the strategic role of the different types of freshwater ecosystems and their value for biodiversity conservation. Effective conservation solutions are dependent on an understanding of connectivity between different freshwater ecosystems (including related terrestrial, coastal and marine systems).

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Section: Freshwater Habitat Type Biodiversity and Ecological Featuresmentioning

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Characteristics, Main Impacts, and Stewardship of Natural and Artificial Freshwater Environments: Consequences for Biodiversity Conservation

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Poikāne

Pringle

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“…The analysis of animal behaviour tackles the great challenge of understanding how individuals respond to changes occurring at a much faster timescale than evolutionary processes, but it is also useful to unravel the causal links between behavioural adaptations and the underlying genetic, cellular and physiological processes [1]. In zooplankton ecology, trajectory analysis has gained increasing impetus over past decades thanks to the advent of computer-assisted video analysis tools, allowing users to adopt a more quantitative, objective and consistent approach to describe behavioural parameters (e.g., speed, percentage of activity, area exploitation, thigmotaxis, phototaxis, chemotaxis and encounter probability) [2][3][4]. This quantitative approach also gave the possibility to explore and statistically analyse the behavioural alterations induced by the exposure to specific compounds [5,6], increasing salinity [7,8] or temperature fluctuations [9].…”

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“…Their attitude to dispersal is lower if compared to other small invertebrates [30,31], thus limiting their ability to move away from a disturbing factor, either physical (for example, an increase in water temperature) or chemical (the localised presence of one or more environmental pollutants), or both conjunctively. Thus, sub-lethal physical and chemical disturbances can potentially lead to local population declines [3,4].…”

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“…Among the several variables to consider in behavioural studies, the recording time is the one most lacking standardisation, making any comparative analysis difficult if not unrealistic. In the trajectory analyses of copepods, the time span adopted in various experiments is extremely variable, ranging from a few seconds [33,34] to several minutes [3,[35][36][37].…”

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“…Pelagic copepods move in a real 3D environment, and the recording of their motion requires more complex video equipment [35]. The movement of inbenthic species is instead much less studied [3,4]. The two different environments can nonetheless benefit from the reciprocal integration, and future efforts should be addressed to the creation of common frameworks both in terms of laboratory setups and numerical approaches.…”

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The Influence of the Recording Time in Modelling the Swimming Behaviour of the Freshwater Inbenthic Copepod Bryocamptus pygmaeus

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The analysis of copepod behaviour gained an increasing impetus over the past decade thanks to the advent of computer-assisted video analysis tools. Since the automated tracking consists in detecting the animal’s position frame by frame and improving signals corrupted by strong background noise, a crucial role is played by the length of the video recording. The aim of this study is to: (i) assess whether the recording time influences the analysis of a suite of movement descriptive parameters; (ii) understand if the recording time influences the outcome of the statistical analyses when hypotheses on the effect of toxicants/chemicals on the freshwater invertebrate behaviour are tested. We investigated trajectory parameters commonly used in behavioural studies—swimming speed, percentage of activity and trajectory convex hull—derived from the trajectories described by the inbenthic–interstitial freshwater copepod Bryocamptus pygmaeus exposed to a sub-lethal concentration of diclofenac. The analyses presented in this work indicate that the recording time did not influence the outcome of the results for the swimming speed and the percentage of activity. For the trajectory convex hull area, our results showed that a recording session lasting at least 3 min provided robust results. However, further investigations are needed to disentangle the role of concurrent factors, such as the behavioural analysis of multiple individuals simultaneously, whether they are of the same or opposite sex and the implications on sexual behaviour, competition for resources and predation.

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Subchronic Effects of Tetrachloroethylene on Two Freshwater Copepod Species: Implications for Groundwater Risk Assessment

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Tabilio Di Camillo,

Di Marzio

et al. 2024

Enviro Toxic and Chemistry

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Aliphatic chlorinated hydrocarbons, notably tetrachloroethylene (also known as perchloroethylene [PCE]), are persistent, mobile, and toxic (PMT) and/or very persistent, mobile, and toxic (vPMT) groundwater pollutants, often exceeding safe drinking water thresholds. The present study delves into the groundwater risk assessment of PCE with a novel focus on the sensitivity of stygobitic species—organisms uniquely adapted to groundwater environments. Through a comparative analysis of the subchronic effects of PCE on the locomotion behavior of two copepod species, the stygobitic Moraria sp. and the nonstygobitic Bryocamptus zschokkei, we highlighted the inadequacy of the current European predicted‐no‐effect concentration of PCE for groundwater ecosystems. Our findings indicate significant behavioral impairments in both species at a concentration (32 ng/L PCE) well below the threshold deemed safe, suggesting that the current European guidelines for groundwater risk assessment may not adequately protect the unique biodiversity of groundwater habitats. Importantly, B. zschokkei demonstrated sensitivity to PCE comparable to or greater than that of the target stygobitic species, suggesting its utility as a substitute species in groundwater risk assessment. The present study adds to the limited research on the ecotoxicological sensitivity of groundwater species to PMT/vPMT chemicals and highlights the need for refined groundwater risk‐assessment methodologies that consider the susceptibilities of stygobitic species. Environ Toxicol Chem 2024;43:2515–2527. © 2024 The Author(s). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of SETAC.

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Environmental risk assessment of propranolol in the groundwater bodies of Europe

Cited by 28 publications

References 86 publications

Characteristics, Main Impacts, and Stewardship of Natural and Artificial Freshwater Environments: Consequences for Biodiversity Conservation

Characteristics, Main Impacts, and Stewardship of Natural and Artificial Freshwater Environments: Consequences for Biodiversity Conservation

The Influence of the Recording Time in Modelling the Swimming Behaviour of the Freshwater Inbenthic Copepod Bryocamptus pygmaeus

Subchronic Effects of Tetrachloroethylene on Two Freshwater Copepod Species: Implications for Groundwater Risk Assessment

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