Sensitivities of Australian and New Zealand amphipods to copper and zinc in waters and metal-spiked sediments

King, Catherine K.; Gale, Sharyn A.; Hyne, Ross V.; Stauber, Jennifer L.; Simpson, Stuart L.; Hickey, Christopher W.

doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2005.09.020

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“…Melita plumulosa (family Melitidae) is commonly found in estuarine tidal mudflats ranging from silty to sandy sediments in freshwater, estuarine, and marine environments throughout southeastern Australia [28]. Adult specimens of M. plumulosa typically range from 8 to 10 mm in length.…”

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“…Specimens of M. plumulosa and N. spinipes were obtained from laboratory cultures maintained as per King et al [28] and Ward et al [29], respectively. Those of P. solida were collected from natural populations occurring in the intertidal mangroves at Bonnet Bay.…”

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“…As it is known that M. plumulosa is sensitive to sediment-bound copper [28,43], avoidance of these sediments was believed to be due to differences in particulate copper or the flux of copper at the sedimentwater interface, rather than differences in dissolved copper in the overlying water. Sediments 5 and 7 were copper-spiked sediments, and although they had been equilibrated and porewater copper concentrations were <5 mg/L (unpublished results), the copper in these sediments was likely to be more bioavailable than if present in field-collected sediments with similar copper concentrations [30].…”

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Avoidance of contaminated sediments by an amphipod (Melita plumulosa), A harpacticoid copepod (Nitocra spinipes), and a snail (Phallomedusa solida)

Ward

Simpson

Jolley

2012

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

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Abstract-The distribution of contaminants is seldom homogeneous in aquatic systems. In the present study, the avoidance response of Melita plumulosa, Nitocra spinipes, and Phallomedusa solida when exposed to contaminated sediments was investigated. Test vessels were designed to allow the congruent placement of two sediments and assessment of the movement of organisms between the sediments. When exposed to reference sediment, each species dispersed evenly between test chambers regardless of differences in sediment particle size. In the presence of contaminated sediment, the magnitude and rate of avoidance varied. Avoidance assays showed that test species avoided contaminated sediment as early as 6, 6, and 24 h following exposure for N. spinipes, P. solida, and M. plumulosa, respectively. The 48-h avoidance response of M. plumulosa for nine contaminated sediments of varying toxicity showed that avoidance was generally greater for sediments which elicited greater 10-d lethality to this species. The study demonstrated that each of these species has the ability to respond to chemical cues in the environment to inhabit sediment that provides the best opportunity for survival. The avoidance response for each species indicates the potential for developing rapid screening methods to assess sediment quality. Evidence suggests that avoidance was related to sediment toxicity and that static 10-d toxicity methods are likely to overestimate toxicity for species, which would avoid contamination in heterogeneous field settings. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 2013;32:644-652. # 2012 SETAC

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Avoidance of contaminated sediments by an amphipod (Melita plumulosa), A harpacticoid copepod (Nitocra spinipes), and a snail (Phallomedusa solida)

Ward

Simpson

Jolley

2012

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

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“…However, several studies have reported that addition of AC may have negative impacts on the habitat quality of the benthic organisms, reducing their activity (Janssen and Beckingham 2013;Kupryianchyk et al 2013). On the other hand, many invertebrate species associated with metals and metalloids polluted sediments in aquatic systems and some of them accumulated metals through diet (Geffard et al 2010;King et al 2006;Schaller et al 2011) Therefore, addition of AC and other sorbents to sediment may affect the metal accumulation in organisms. Shen et al (2012) reported that BSAF values for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were elevated when MWNT-2 addition to sediment was greater than 1.5 %.…”

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Bioturbation effects on heavy metals fluxes from sediment treated with activated carbon

Men

Yang

et al. 2016

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Adding activated carbon (AC) to sediment has been proposed as an in situ sediment remediation technique. To date, it is not clear whether this technique is effective in the treatment of heavy metal-contaminated sediment in the presence of bioturbators. In the present study, we compare the ability of granular-activated carbon (GAC) and powderactivated carbon (PAC) to reduce Cu, Zn, and Pb pore water concentrations at environmentally relevant concentrations in the absence and presence of Chironomid larvae. Compared to untreated sediment, PAC and GAC addition in the absence of Chironomid larvae resulted in reductions of free Cu concentrations of 78 and 66 % just below the sediment-water interface after 28 days, respectively. While for Pb and Zn these concentration reductions were only 40 and 38, 19 and 25 %, respectively. The presence of Chironomid larvae in untreated, and GAC sediment generally increased the free heavy metals concentrations in pore water, especially in the deeper layers. In comparison with untreated sediment, the coexistence of AC enhanced the accumulation of heavy metals, especially for PAC. This increased bioaccumulation may decrease the survival of Chironomid larvae. The result indicated that ACs may not be suitable for the remediation of heavy metalcontaminated sediments.

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“…This approach has been used to evaluate the sensitivity of test organisms to contaminants [5,14,15], particularly their sensitivity to metals such as cadmium, copper, and zinc [16][17][18].…”

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Using the Amphipod Hyale Nigra to Assess the Quality of Marine Sediments

Passarelli¹,

César²,

Dms³

2017

Ann Limnol Oceanogr

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Few species are standardized and have been used as test organisms around the world in ecotoxicological assays. In the case of sediment assessment, there are only two amphipod species (Tiburonella viscana and Grandidierella bonnieroides) standardized protocols for toxicity test in South Atlantic region.In order to evaluate the possibility of using the epibenthic marine amphipod Hyale nigra in toxicity tests, a sensitivity test using spiked sediment method was applied, with cadmium chloride as a reference toxicant (CdCl2). Tests with environmental samples were performed to validate the test organisms. The samples were taken from Santos Estuary and Bay in state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The historical toxicity and contamination are mentioned in the literature. The results obtained in the spiked sediment tests showed little variation in the sensitivity of Hyale nigra amphipod with a mean LC50 value of 5.73 mg.L-1 (1.51 mg.L-1 -8.75 mg.L-1). In the tests with environmental samples, the results obtained were similar to those found in the literature regarding this sampling area. This study demonstrates the potential of Hyale nigra amphipod as a test organism in toxicity tests, once that the specie is sensitive and its results were similar to those reported in the literature on other species of amphipods that are already used in ecotoxicological studies.

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Sensitivities of Australian and New Zealand amphipods to copper and zinc in waters and metal-spiked sediments

Cited by 92 publications

References 22 publications

Avoidance of contaminated sediments by an amphipod (Melita plumulosa), A harpacticoid copepod (Nitocra spinipes), and a snail (Phallomedusa solida)

Avoidance of contaminated sediments by an amphipod (Melita plumulosa), A harpacticoid copepod (Nitocra spinipes), and a snail (Phallomedusa solida)

Bioturbation effects on heavy metals fluxes from sediment treated with activated carbon

Using the Amphipod Hyale Nigra to Assess the Quality of Marine Sediments

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