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ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY
卷 31, 期 6, 页码 1301-1305出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/etc.1813
关键词
Emigration; Mortality; Reproduction; Atrazine; Daphnia magna
资金
- FCT (Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal) [PTDC/AMB/64230/ 2006, PTDC/AAC-AMB/105411/2008, PTDC/AAC-AMB/103547/ 2008]
- FCT (Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal) through FSE
- FCT (Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal) through POPH
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [PTDC/AAC-AMB/105411/2008, PTDC/AMB/64230/2006] Funding Source: FCT
Most laboratory tests may underestimate adverse effects in real scenarios of contamination because they imply the forced exposure of organisms to contaminants, thus overlooking the possibility of emigration. Avoidance from contaminants has been observed in several aquatic organisms, and avoidance-based tests have been recommended to be included in risk assessment studies. To reduce uncertainty in the extrapolation of laboratory derived results, the first aim of the present study was to compare both the median avoidance concentration and the lowest-observed-effect gradient (LOEG) values of atrazine for the cladoceran Daphnia magna, between an already developed 1.1-m-long system and a scaled-up system, three times longer. Second, the present study aimed at evaluating the population immediate declinethe proportion of the population that disappears (avoids and, if not, dies)through the integration of the relationships between lethality and avoidance versus contaminant concentration. Daphnia magna significantly avoided atrazine, during 12-h exposures, with similar results in the original and scaled-up systems. The population immediate decline at the 48-h median lethal concentration would be 94%. Even at a concentration eliciting only 5% mortality, the population immediate decline would be over 50%. Achieving a higher pertinence of avoidance results and a better understanding of the LOEG values and their time dependence, scaling up the system further both spatially and temporally, and modeling explicit spatial dynamics in exposure and organism movement in space and time are needed. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 2012;31:13011305. (c) 2012 SETAC
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