2011
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2011.03.013
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Nematode species at risk — A metric to assess pollution in soft sediments of freshwaters

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“…Nematodes, in particular, have already been employed in environmental quality assessment studies and have been proved to be suitable indicators for pollution-induced disturbances of benthic ecosystems (Coull & Chandler, 1992;Bongers & Ferris, 1999;Höss et al, 2011). Nevertheless, they are currently not considered as a requirement for the assessment of the ecological status of the benthic environment according to the WFD and MSFD.…”
Section: Efficiency Of Nematode Attributes In the Ecoq Assessment In mentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Nematodes, in particular, have already been employed in environmental quality assessment studies and have been proved to be suitable indicators for pollution-induced disturbances of benthic ecosystems (Coull & Chandler, 1992;Bongers & Ferris, 1999;Höss et al, 2011). Nevertheless, they are currently not considered as a requirement for the assessment of the ecological status of the benthic environment according to the WFD and MSFD.…”
Section: Efficiency Of Nematode Attributes In the Ecoq Assessment In mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Nevertheless, they are currently not considered as a requirement for the assessment of the ecological status of the benthic environment according to the WFD and MSFD. The use of nematode indices, especially in soft sea beds, can close the gap in current monitoring programs, which are now mainly based on macrobenthic invertebrates (Höss et al, 2011), revealing different and complementary aspects of the factors structuring benthic ecosystems. This is fundamental in ecological status assessment (Vanaverbeke et al, 2011;Semprucci et al, 2013b).…”
Section: Efficiency Of Nematode Attributes In the Ecoq Assessment In mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…According to Von der Ohe and Lies (2004), TU estimates were computed separately for the two classes of contaminants. Because LC 50 values for D. magna were obtained in aqueous exposures, contaminant concentrations determined in the sediments were converted to ''porewater'' concentrations as described in detail by Höss et al (2011). In brief, based on the equilibrium-partitioning concept, porewater concentrations of contaminants measured in sediments were calculated according to formula:…”
Section: Sediment Tusmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As a consequence, benthic species, living in close contact with sediment particles and interstitial water, are intimately exposed to contaminants and therefore have been used historically as indicators of environmental quality. Benthic macrofauna is more usually employed as bioindicators than the meiofauna, despite the fact that in soft sediments, where contaminants accumulate, meiobenthic invertebrates frequently represent the most abundant metazoan organisms (Gerlach, 1971;Höss et al, 2011). Moreover, in severely polluted sediments, some meiofaunal taxa represent the only significant metazoan component, whereas macrofauna may be scarce and difficult to sample representatively, or dominated by high abundance of very few taxa, in both cases providing little information that can be used effectively (Kennedy and Jacoby, 1999).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%