Relative sensitivity of three freshwater benthic macroinvertebrates to ten contaminants

Phipps, Gary L.; Mattson, Vincent R.; Ankley, Gerald T.

doi:10.1007/bf00213103

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“…(86) Another public policy issue concerns providing food security. The recent study of dieldrin food contamination conducted using Department of Agriculture data recommends farmers be made more aware of the health dangers of growing squash, melon, and soybean crops in dieldrin-saturated soils (52). Public health advisories must be more accurate and report dietary concerns for specific areas and for sport fish.…”

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Aldrin and dieldrin: a review of research on their production, environmental deposition and fate, bioaccumulation, toxicology, and epidemiology in the United States.

Jorgenson¹

2001

Environ Health Perspect

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In the last decade four international agreements have focused on a group of chemical substances known as persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Global agreement on the reduction and eventual elimination of these substances by banning their production and trade is a long-term goal. Negotiations for these agreements have focused on the need to correlate data from scientists working on soil and water sampling and air pollution monitoring. Toxicologists and epidemiologists have focused on wildlife and human health effects and understanding patterns of disease requires better access to these data. In the last 20 years, substantial databases have been created and now are becoming available on the Internet. This review is a detailed examination of 2 of the 12 POPs, aldrin and dieldrin, and how scientific groups identify and measure their effects. It draws on research findings from a variety of environmental monitoring networks in the United States. An overview of the ecologic and health effects of aldrin and dieldrin provides examples of how to streamline some of the programs and improve access to mutually useful scientific data. The research groups are located in many government departments, universities, and private organizations. Identifying databases can provide an "information accelerator" useful to a larger audience and can help build better plant and animal research models across scientific fields.

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Aldrin and dieldrin: a review of research on their production, environmental deposition and fate, bioaccumulation, toxicology, and epidemiology in the United States.

Jorgenson¹

2001

Environ Health Perspect

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“…Aldrin and dieldrin were formulated to reduce populations of insects. Laboratory tests show that midges are very sensitive to dieldrin as well as five other organochlorines and are good indicators of sediment toxicity (52). There is increasing research on how various insect groups have become more resistant to the toxicity of these substances.…”

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Aldrin and Dieldrin: A Review of Research on Their Production, Environmental Deposition and Fate, Bioaccumulation, Toxicology, and Epidemiology in the United States

Jorgenson¹

2001

Environmental Health Perspectives

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“…These abiotic impacts in turn have biologi- cal effects, by structuring influences on the diversity, density and the overall resilience of reservoir biota (FUREY et al, 2006;MCEWEN and BUTLER, 2010). Benthic macroinvertebrates are important in aquatic ecosystem and have widely been used as indicators of variations of environmental conditions (PHIPPS et al, 1995; PELLETIER et al, 2010). They are usually affected by the sediment properties caused by the water disturbance (MCEWEN and BUTLER, 2010), and other changes of water environment factors, e.g., algal blooms, which could influence the food resources of macroinvertebrates (LOPES et al, 2000;WHITE et al, 2005).…”

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Spatial Distribution of Macroinvertebrate Community along a Longitudinal Gradient in a Eutrophic Reservoir‐Bay during Different Impoundment Stages, China

Zhang

Cai

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International Review of Hydrobiology

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The longitudinal patterns of the macroinvertebrate community in the Xiangxi Bay of the Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) were investigated during the second (2nd) and third (3rd) impoundment stages (October 2006-July 2010, to test the effects of increased water level fluctuations (WLF) on the macroinvertebrates. By comparing to the former reports of the first (1st) impoundment stage (inter-annual WLF 4 m), we found that oligochaetes dominated in three different stages in the Xiangxi Bay. However, the total abundance of macroinvertebrates showed a dramatical decline from the 1st to 2nd stage (interannual WLF 11 m), but changed slightly from the 2nd to 3rd stage (inter-annual WLF 30 m). This indicated that higher WLF in the 2nd stage had already greatly reduced the macroinvertebrates abundance, thereby the disturbance in the 3rd stage could only slightly affect the already reduced abundance. Three longitudinal zones (the mainstream zone, the lacustrine zone and the transitional zone) were found based on the macroinvertebrate density, biomass, and taxa richness, combined with the geographical location of each site. Significant differences in density and biomass of macroinvertebrate were found among different zones (P < 0.05), yet no significant difference was found in taxa richness (P > 0.05). Two-way indicator species analysis showed that the community type in most sites varied in different seasons from the 2nd stage, exhibiting a dynamic zonation pattern, which differed with the stable pattern of the 1st stage. This seasonal feature was coupled to the seasonal changes of the WLF. IntroductionDam construction is considered as a disturbance to the former ecosystem, or the formation of a new system, by causing a series of ecological changes (BAXTER, 1977). Impoundment after dam construction will lead to slowing down of the water velocity, increasing of the transparency, depletion of the dissolved oxygen and accumulation of nutrients (BAXTER, 1977;FRIEDL and WÜEST, 2002;YE et al., 2007). These abiotic impacts in turn have biologi- cal effects, by structuring influences on the diversity, density and the overall resilience of reservoir biota (FUREY et al., 2006;MCEWEN and BUTLER, 2010). Benthic macroinvertebrates are important in aquatic ecosystem and have widely been used as indicators of variations of environmental conditions (PHIPPS et al., 1995; PELLETIER et al., 2010). They are usually affected by the sediment properties caused by the water disturbance (MCEWEN and BUTLER, 2010), and other changes of water environment factors, e.g., algal blooms, which could influence the food resources of macroinvertebrates (LOPES et al., 2000;WHITE et al., 2005).Reservoirs formed by damming rivers always differ from natural lakes in the shape of their longitudinal profiles. Natural lakes are normally deepest in the central region, whereas reservoirs are almost always deepest just upstream from the dam. Thus, a gradient would form along the longitudinal axis of the reservoir. A typical reservoir can be divided into three zones...

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Relative sensitivity of three freshwater benthic macroinvertebrates to ten contaminants

Cited by 146 publications

References 15 publications

Aldrin and dieldrin: a review of research on their production, environmental deposition and fate, bioaccumulation, toxicology, and epidemiology in the United States.

Aldrin and dieldrin: a review of research on their production, environmental deposition and fate, bioaccumulation, toxicology, and epidemiology in the United States.

Aldrin and Dieldrin: A Review of Research on Their Production, Environmental Deposition and Fate, Bioaccumulation, Toxicology, and Epidemiology in the United States

Spatial Distribution of Macroinvertebrate Community along a Longitudinal Gradient in a Eutrophic Reservoir‐Bay during Different Impoundment Stages, China

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