Use of multiple cell and tissue-level biomarkers in mussels collected along two gas fields in the northern Adriatic Sea as a tool for long term environmental monitoring

Gomiero, Alessio; Volpato, Elisa; Nasci, Cristina; Perra, Guido; Viarengo, Aldo; Dagnino, A.; Spagnolo, Alessandra; Fabi, Gianna

doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2014.12.034

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“…The total concentration of the PAHs determined in the resident and caged mussels from 5 investigated sites in Rijeka Bay is presented in Table 2. The total PAH content in resident mussels at all investigated sites was higher than in mussels from the pristine Mediterranean areas but in the range determined for mussels collected in highly urbanised areas (Baumard et al 1999, Barhaumi et al, 2014 or in vicinity of gas-drilling activities in the northern Adriatic (Gomiero et al, 2015). The total PAH content in caged mussels was higher than at 123 stations around the coast of the NW basin of the Mediterranean Sea (Galgani et al, 2011) but lower than in urbanized Adriatic coastal areas (Fabbri et al, 2006) .…”

Section: Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbonsmentioning

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Comparison between resident and caged mussels: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon accumulation and biological response

Glad¹,

Bihari

Jakšić

et al. 2017

Marine Environmental Research

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The aim of this study was to compare the capability of "passive" and "active" biomonitoring to determine the environmental pressure. For this purpose, PAHs content and several biological responses in resident and caged mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) at five sampling sites (Rijeka Bay, Adriatic Sea) were analsed. Resident mussels were found better in reflecting the level of PAH loads at particular sites while only caged mussels could detect input of HMW PAHs. When data of each investigated parameter were compared separately, the majority of differences between resident and caged mussels' results were site-specific. Integration of biological response patterns expressed as Index of Biological Response (IBR) resulted with different sampling sites ranking for resident and caged mussels. Multiple Factor Analysis (MFA) based on integration of tissue PAH concentration and biological response revealed resident mussels as more powerful for detection of environmental pressure. The use of resident mussels is recommended as appropriate and less costly approach for monitoring the effect of pollution.

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Section: Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbonsmentioning

confidence: 54%

Comparison between resident and caged mussels: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon accumulation and biological response

Glad¹,

Bihari

Jakšić

et al. 2017

Marine Environmental Research

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“…Over the years, several studies have investigated the levels of PAHs in seafood caught in the Adriatic [12,[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35], Ionian [9,20,34,[36][37][38][39], and Tyrrhenian Seas [7,14,16,17,19,30,[40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50], with the aims of monitoring the environmental status of particularly impacted areas [39,48], improving the knowledge of factors influencing PAHs levels in marine species [12,35], and, ultimately, informing decisionmakers when it comes to fixing the limits to PAH levels in fishery products [9].…”

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Meta-Analysis of a New Georeferenced Database on Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Western and Central Mediterranean Seafood

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The aim of this work was to collect and harmonize the results of several studies achieved over the years, in order to obtain a database of georeferenced observations on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Western and Central Mediterranean seafood. For each observation, some information on the taxonomy and the ecology of the sampled species are reported, as well as details on the investigated hydrocarbon, and spatial and temporal information on sampling. Moreover, two health risk indexes were calculated for each record and included in the database. Through several statistical methods, we conducted a meta-analysis of the data on some of the species in this database, identifying trends that could be related to the biology of the investigated organisms, as well as to the physico-chemical properties of each hydrocarbon and to the oceanographic characteristic of this part of the Mediterranean. The analysis of the data showed that, at a consumption rate like the one typical of the Italian population, seafood caught from the area considered in the present work seems to pose a minimal risk to health. However, we also found evidence of an increasing trend of PAH concentrations in Mediterranean mussels, pointing to the need for constant monitoring.

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“…Integrated modelling and experimental studies based on mechanistic simulations, to predict the effects of an oil spill on M. galloprovincialis populations, have never been performed before in a Mediterranean context, suggesting the importance of this tool in helping the near future remediation technique move a step forward to become the most developed integrated-monitoring-studies already successfully applied (Gorbi et al, 2008;Gomiero et al, 2011a,b). Interestingly, Gomiero and co-authors have recently performed a novel algorithm aiming at drawing up indices to rank the different stages of pollutant-induced stress syndrome, helping to translate the biomarker data into an actual health risk index to suggest to environmental managers (Mussel Expert System, MES; Gomiero et al, 2015).…”

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Predicting the effectiveness of oil recovery strategies in the marine polluted environment

Giacoletti

Cappello

Mancini

et al. 2018

Journal of Environmental Management

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Many recent studies have focused their attention on the physiological stress experienced by marine organisms in measuring ecotoxicological responses. Here we suggest a new approach for investigating the effects of an anthropogenic pollutant on Life-History (LH) traits of marine organisms, to provide stakeholders and policy makers an effective tool to evaluate the best environmental recovery strategies and plans. A Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB), coupled with a biophysical model was used to predict the effects of a six-month oil spill on Mytilus galloprovincialis' LH traits and to test two potential recovery strategies in the central Mediterranean Sea. Oxygen consumption rates were used to check for increasing energetic maintenance costs [ṗ] respectively in oil-polluted system treatments (∼76.2%) and polluted systems with physical (nano-bubbles ∼32.6%) or chemical treatment (dispersant ∼18.4%). Our model outputs highlighted a higher growth reduction of intertidal compared to subtidal populations and contextually an effect on the reproductive output and on the maturation time of this latter. The models also enabled an estimation of the timing of the disturbance affecting both the intertidal and subtidal populations' growth and reproduction. Interestingly, results led to the identification of the chemical dispersant as being the best remediation technique in contexts of oil spill contamination.

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Use of multiple cell and tissue-level biomarkers in mussels collected along two gas fields in the northern Adriatic Sea as a tool for long term environmental monitoring

Cited by 25 publications

References 92 publications

Comparison between resident and caged mussels: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon accumulation and biological response

Comparison between resident and caged mussels: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon accumulation and biological response

Meta-Analysis of a New Georeferenced Database on Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Western and Central Mediterranean Seafood

Predicting the effectiveness of oil recovery strategies in the marine polluted environment

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