{"title":"A Review on Prediction Models for Pesticide Use, Transmission, and Its Impacts.","authors":"Edwin Prem Kumar Gilbert, Lydia Edwin","doi":"10.1007/398_2020_64","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/398_2020_64","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The lure of increased productivity and crop yield has caused the imprudent use of pesticides in great quantity that has unfavorably affected environmental health. Pesticides are chemicals intended for avoiding, eliminating, and mitigating any pests that affect the crop. Lack of awareness, improper management, and negligent disposal of pesticide containers have led to the permeation of pesticide residues into the food chain and other environmental pathways, leading to environmental degradation. Sufficient steps must be undertaken at various levels to monitor and ensure judicious use of pesticides. Development of prediction models for optimum use of pesticides, pesticide management, and their impact would be of great help in monitoring and controlling the ill effects of excessive use of pesticides. This paper aims to present an exhaustive review of the prediction models developed and modeling strategies used to optimize the use of pesticides.</p>","PeriodicalId":21182,"journal":{"name":"Reviews of environmental contamination and toxicology","volume":"257 ","pages":"37-68"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/398_2020_64","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38936972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interaction of Copper-Based Nanoparticles to Soil, Terrestrial, and Aquatic Systems: Critical Review of the State of the Science and Future Perspectives.","authors":"Vishnu Rajput, Tatiana Minkina, Bilal Ahmed, Svetlana Sushkova, Ritu Singh, Mikhail Soldatov, Bertrand Laratte, Alexey Fedorenko, Saglara Mandzhieva, Eliza Blicharska, Javed Musarrat, Quaiser Saquib, Jolanta Flieger, Andrey Gorovtsov","doi":"10.1007/398_2019_34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/398_2019_34","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the past two decades, increased production and usage of metallic nanoparticles (NPs) have inevitably increased their discharge into the different compartments of the environment, which ultimately paved the way for their uptake and accumulation in various trophic levels of the food chain. Due to these issues, several questions have been raised on the usage of NPs in everyday life and have become a matter of public health concern. Among the metallic NPs, Cu-based NPs have gained popularity due to their cost-effectiveness and multifarious promising uses. Several studies in the past represented the phytotoxicity of Cu-based NPs on plants. However, comprehensive knowledge is still lacking. Additionally, the impact of Cu-based NPs on soil organisms such as agriculturally important microbes, fungi, mycorrhiza, nematode, and earthworms is poorly studied. This review article critically analyses the literature data to achieve a more comprehensive knowledge on the toxicological profile of Cu-based NPs and increase our understanding of the effects of Cu-based NPs on aquatic and terrestrial plants as well as on soil microbial communities. The underlying mechanism of biotransformation of Cu-based NPs and the process of their penetration into plants have also been discussed herein. Overall, this review could provide valuable information to design rules and regulations for the safe disposal of Cu-based NPs into a sustainable environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":21182,"journal":{"name":"Reviews of environmental contamination and toxicology","volume":"252 ","pages":"51-96"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/398_2019_34","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37401237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Occurrence, Fate and Fluxes of Plastics and Microplastics in Terrestrial and Freshwater Ecosystems.","authors":"Theresa Schell, Andreu Rico, Marco Vighi","doi":"10.1007/398_2019_40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/398_2019_40","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Plastics and microplastics are nowadays ubiquitously found in the environment. This has raised concerns on possible adverse effects for human health and the environment. To date, extensive information exists on their occurrence in the marine environment. However, information on their different sources and their transport within and across different freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems is still limited. Therefore, we assessed the current knowledge regarding the industrial sources of plastics and microplastics, their environmental pathways and load rates and their occurrence and fate in different environmental compartments, thereby highlighting important data gaps which are needed to better describe their global environmental cycle and exposure. This study shows that the quantitative assessment of the contribution of the different major sources of plastics, microplastics and nanoplastics to aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems is challenged by some data limitations. While the presence of microplastics in wastewater and freshwater is relatively well studied, data on sediments and especially soil ecosystems are too limited. Moreover, the overall occurrence of large-sized plastics, the patterns of microplastic and nanoplastic formation from them, the presence and deposition of plastic particles from the atmosphere and the fluxes of all kinds of plastics from soils towards aquatic environments (e.g. by surface water runoff, soil infiltration) are still poorly understood. Finally, this study discusses several research areas that need urgent development in order to better understand the potential ecological risks of plastic pollution and provides some recommendations to better manage and control plastic and microplastic inputs into the environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":21182,"journal":{"name":"Reviews of environmental contamination and toxicology","volume":"250 ","pages":"1-43"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/398_2019_40","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37616503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Herbicide Exposure and Toxicity to Aquatic Primary Producers.","authors":"J Arie Vonk, Michiel H S Kraak","doi":"10.1007/398_2020_48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/398_2020_48","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of the present review was to give an overview of the current state of science concerning herbicide exposure and toxicity to aquatic primary producers. To this end we assessed the open literature, revealing the widespread presence of (mixtures of) herbicides, inevitably leading to the exposure of non-target primary producers. Yet, herbicide concentrations show strong temporal and spatial variations. Concerning herbicide toxicity, it was concluded that the most sensitive as well as the least sensitive species differed per herbicide and that the observed effect concentrations for some herbicides were rather independent from the exposure time. More extensive ecotoxicity testing is required, especially considering macrophytes and marine herbicide toxicity. Hence, it was concluded that the largest knowledge gap concerns the effects of sediment-associated herbicides on primary producers in the marine/estuarine environment. Generally, there is no actual risk of waterborne herbicides to aquatic primary producers. Still, median concentrations of atrazine and especially of diuron measured in China, the USA and Europe represented moderate risks for primary producers. Maximum concentrations due to misuse and accidents may even cause the exceedance of almost 60% of the effect concentrations plotted in SSDs. Using bioassays to determine the effect of contaminated water and sediment and to identify the herbicides of concern is a promising addition to chemical analysis, especially for the photosynthesis-inhibiting herbicides using photosynthesis as endpoint in the bioassays. This review concluded that to come to a reliable herbicide hazard and risk assessment, an extensive catch-up must be made concerning macrophytes, the marine environment and especially sediment as overlooked and understudied environmental compartments.</p>","PeriodicalId":21182,"journal":{"name":"Reviews of environmental contamination and toxicology","volume":"250 ","pages":"119-171"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/398_2020_48","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38393646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ramya Narendrula-Kotha, Gabriel Theriault, Melanie Mehes-Smith, Kersey Kalubi, Kabwe Nkongolo
{"title":"Metal Toxicity and Resistance in Plants and Microorganisms in Terrestrial Ecosystems.","authors":"Ramya Narendrula-Kotha, Gabriel Theriault, Melanie Mehes-Smith, Kersey Kalubi, Kabwe Nkongolo","doi":"10.1007/398_2018_22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/398_2018_22","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Metals are major abiotic stressors of many organisms, but their toxicity in plants is not as studied as in microorganisms and animals. Likewise, research in plant responses to metal contamination is sketchy. Candidate genes associated with metal resistance in plants have been recently discovered and characterized. Some mechanisms of plant adaptation to metal stressors have been now decrypted. New knowledge on microbial reaction to metal contamination and the relationship between bacterial, archaeal, and fungal resistance to metals has broadened our understanding of metal homeostasis in living organisms. Recent reviews on metal toxicity and resistance mechanisms focused only on the role of transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and ionomics. This review is a critical analysis of key findings on physiological and genetic processes in plants and microorganisms in responses to soil metal contaminations.</p>","PeriodicalId":21182,"journal":{"name":"Reviews of environmental contamination and toxicology","volume":"249 ","pages":"1-27"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/398_2018_22","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36981592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phytoremediation of Heavy Metal-Contaminated Sites: Eco-environmental Concerns, Field Studies, Sustainability Issues, and Future Prospects.","authors":"Gaurav Saxena, Diane Purchase, Sikandar I Mulla, Ganesh Dattatraya Saratale, Ram Naresh Bharagava","doi":"10.1007/398_2019_24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/398_2019_24","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Environmental contamination due to heavy metals (HMs) is of serious ecotoxicological concern worldwide because of their increasing use at industries. Due to non-biodegradable and persistent nature, HMs cause serious soil/water pollution and severe health hazards in living beings upon exposure. HMs can be genotoxic, carcinogenic, mutagenic, and teratogenic in nature even at low concentration. They may also act as endocrine disruptors and induce developmental as well as neurological disorders, and thus, their removal from our natural environment is crucial for the rehabilitation of contaminated sites. To cope with HM pollution, phytoremediation has emerged as a low-cost and eco-sustainable solution to conventional physicochemical cleanup methods that require high capital investment and labor alter soil properties and disturb soil microflora. Phytoremediation is a green technology wherein plants and associated microbes are used to remediate HM-contaminated sites to safeguard the environment and protect public health. Hence, in view of the above, the present paper aims to examine the feasibility of phytoremediation as a sustainable remediation technology for the management of metal-contaminated sites. Therefore, this paper provides an in-depth review on both the conventional and novel phytoremediation approaches; evaluates their efficacy to remove toxic metals from our natural environment; explores current scientific progresses, field experiences, and sustainability issues; and revises world over trends in phytoremediation research for its wider recognition and public acceptance as a sustainable remediation technology for the management of contaminated sites in the twenty-first century.</p>","PeriodicalId":21182,"journal":{"name":"Reviews of environmental contamination and toxicology","volume":"249 ","pages":"71-131"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/398_2019_24","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37000288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
William Nelson, Ying-Xiong Wang, Gloria Sakwari, Yu-Bin Ding
{"title":"Review of the Effects of Perinatal Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals in Animals and Humans.","authors":"William Nelson, Ying-Xiong Wang, Gloria Sakwari, Yu-Bin Ding","doi":"10.1007/398_2019_30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/398_2019_30","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Maternal exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) is associated with long-term hormone-dependent effects that are sometimes not revealed until maturity, middle age, or adulthood. The aim of this study was to conduct descriptive reviews on animal experimental and human epidemiological evidence of the adverse health effects of in utero and lactational exposure to selected EDCs on the first generation and subsequent generation of the exposed offspring. PubMed, Web of Science, and Toxline databases were searched for relevant human and experimental animal studies on 29 October 29 2018. Search results were screened for relevance, and studies that met the inclusion criteria were evaluated and qualitative data extracted for analysis. The search yielded 73 relevant human and 113 animal studies. Results from studies show that in utero and lactational exposure to EDCs is associated with impairment of reproductive, immunologic, metabolic, neurobehavioral, and growth physiology of the exposed offspring up to the fourth generation without additional exposure. Little convergence is seen between animal experiments and human studies in terms of the reported adverse health effects which might be associated with methodologic challenges across the studies. Based on the available animal and human evidence, in utero and lactational exposure to EDCs is detrimental to the offspring. However, more human studies are necessary to clarify the toxicological and pathophysiological mechanisms underlying these effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":21182,"journal":{"name":"Reviews of environmental contamination and toxicology","volume":"251 ","pages":"131-184"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/398_2019_30","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37275767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Climate Change and Bivalve Mass Mortality in Temperate Regions.","authors":"Tan Kar Soon, Huaiping Zheng","doi":"10.1007/398_2019_31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/398_2019_31","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>One of the fastest-growing global food sectors is the bivalve aquaculture industry. Bivalves particularly oysters, mussels and clams are important sources of animal protein (Tan and Ransangan 2016a, b). Bivalve aquaculture represents 14-16% of the average per capita animal protein for 1.5 billion people and supports over 200,000 livelihoods, mostly in developing countries (FAO 2018). Most of the bivalves produced around the world (89%) are from aquaculture (FAO 2016). To date, mollusc aquaculture have accounted for 21.42% (17.14 million tonnes) of the total aquaculture production, with Asia being the largest contributor (92.27%) (FAO 2018).</p>","PeriodicalId":21182,"journal":{"name":"Reviews of environmental contamination and toxicology","volume":"251 ","pages":"109-129"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/398_2019_31","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37404741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dominique M Narain-Ford, Ruud P Bartholomeus, Stefan C Dekker, Annemarie P van Wezel
{"title":"Natural Purification Through Soils: Risks and Opportunities of Sewage Effluent Reuse in Sub-surface Irrigation.","authors":"Dominique M Narain-Ford, Ruud P Bartholomeus, Stefan C Dekker, Annemarie P van Wezel","doi":"10.1007/398_2020_49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/398_2020_49","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21182,"journal":{"name":"Reviews of environmental contamination and toxicology","volume":"250 ","pages":"85-117"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/398_2020_49","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38388279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
John Iwan Jones, John F Murphy, Adrian L Collins, Kate L Spencer, Philip S Rainbow, Amanda Arnold, James L Pretty, Arabella M L Moorhouse, Victor Aguilera, Paul Edwards, Fred Parsonage, Hugh Potter, Paul Whitehouse
{"title":"The Impact of Metal-Rich Sediments Derived from Mining on Freshwater Stream Life.","authors":"John Iwan Jones, John F Murphy, Adrian L Collins, Kate L Spencer, Philip S Rainbow, Amanda Arnold, James L Pretty, Arabella M L Moorhouse, Victor Aguilera, Paul Edwards, Fred Parsonage, Hugh Potter, Paul Whitehouse","doi":"10.1007/398_2018_21","DOIUrl":"10.1007/398_2018_21","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Metal-rich sediments have the potential to impair life in freshwater streams and rivers and, thereby, to inhibit recovery of ecological conditions after any remediation of mine water discharges. Sediments remain metal-rich over long time periods and have long-term potential ecotoxicological interactions with local biota, unless the sediments themselves are physically removed or replaced by less metal-rich sediment. Laboratory-derived environmental quality standards are difficult to apply to the field situation, as many complicating factors exist in the real world. Therefore, there is a strong case to consider other, field-relevant, measures of toxic effects as alternatives to laboratory-derived standards and to seek better biological tools to detect, diagnose and ideally predict community-level ecotoxicological impairment. Hence, this review concentrated on field measures of toxic effects of metal-rich sediment in freshwater streams, with less emphasis on laboratory-based toxicity testing approaches. To this end, this review provides an overview of the impact of metal-rich sediments on freshwater stream life, focusing on biological impacts linked to metal contamination.</p>","PeriodicalId":21182,"journal":{"name":"Reviews of environmental contamination and toxicology","volume":"248 ","pages":"111-189"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36887941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}