{"title":"Contrasting Influences of Selenium Status and Mercury Exposures on Environmental Health – an Introduction to the Special Topic: Selenium as a Bioindicator of Susceptibility to Mercury Exposures","authors":"N. Ralston","doi":"10.1080/15555270903167613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15555270903167613","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92776,"journal":{"name":"Environmental bioindicators","volume":"4 1","pages":"198-202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15555270903167613","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60026465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biomarker Response of Pink Snapper to Chronic Exposure to Synthetic-Based Drilling Muds","authors":"S. Bakhtyar, M. M. Gagnon","doi":"10.1080/15555270902970611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15555270902970611","url":null,"abstract":"In Western Australia, the discharge of drill cuttings at sea is permitted under certain conditions set by regulatory authorities. These drill cuttings are coated with the drilling muds used during the drilling process. Synthetic-based drilling muds (SBMs) are increasingly used in exploration drilling. However, very little is known of their long-term toxicity in the marine environment. The impetus for the present study arose from the concerns raised regarding the long-term environmental impacts of SBMs on marine biota. The project investigated the chronic toxicity of two SBMs, Syndrill 80:20 and Syndrill 90:10, to a marine fish, the pink snapper (Pagrus auratus Forster). Juvenile fish were exposed under laboratory conditions to the two SBMs for 21 days, after which biomarkers of exposure (ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase [EROD] activity and biliary metabolites) and biomarkers of effects (condition factor, liver somatic index, serum sorbitol dehydrogenase [SDH], DNA damage and heat shock stress proteins HSP-70)...","PeriodicalId":92776,"journal":{"name":"Environmental bioindicators","volume":"35 1","pages":"136-152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15555270902970611","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60026196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lichens as Bioindicators of Air Quality in Distant Areas in Patagonia (Argentina)","authors":"S. Calvelo, N. Baccalá, S. Liberatore","doi":"10.1080/15555270902963459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15555270902963459","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution is part of a more extensive assessment of the effects of air pollution in urban environments in Patagonia (Argentina) through its effects on the lichen flora. Different methodologies were applied. This paper presents calculations of the Index of Atmospheric Purity (IAP) for urban contaminated (Bariloche city) and periurban uncontaminated environments, calculated at sites for which data were available on the elemental composition of contaminating elements. The IAP results obtained were correlated with the elemental composition of lichen thalli. Principal Component Analysis and Cluster Analysis were performed to determine data partitioning using Ward's method. The results yielded four clusters: three of them correspond to thalli and IAP values from urban areas, where the most important factors affecting the lichen flora have been identified as their proximity to medium to high traffic density or petrol stations. Thalli from periurban uncontaminated environments form an independent cluster,...","PeriodicalId":92776,"journal":{"name":"Environmental bioindicators","volume":"4 1","pages":"123-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15555270902963459","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60026005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stakeholder Involvement in Indicator Selection: Case Studies and Levels of Participation","authors":"J. Burger","doi":"10.1080/15555270902996525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15555270902996525","url":null,"abstract":"Governmental agencies, Tribal Nations, scientists, managers, and the public are interested in assessing the health of ecosystems and their component parts, including humans. Assessing and monitoring human and ecosystem health requires the use of a suite of bioindicators that are biologically, methodologically, and societally relevant, and can be used effectively over time to assess trends and provide early warning. Often the latter consideration is ignored, or at best assumed. This paper examines the role of stakeholders in indicator selection specifically, and suggests that societal relevance should include participation and collaboration with a full range of Tribal Nations and stakeholders, as well as federal and state agencies. The inclusion of a full range of Tribal Nations and stakeholders can result in the development of bioindicators useful for ecosystem health assessment, human effects and interventions, human health assessment, evaluating the efficacy of remediation, and evaluating sustainability...","PeriodicalId":92776,"journal":{"name":"Environmental bioindicators","volume":"4 1","pages":"170-190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15555270902996525","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60026240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are We Making Progress in the Use of Bioindicators in Decision-Making?","authors":"J. R. Newman, E. Zillioux","doi":"10.1080/15555270903031710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15555270903031710","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92776,"journal":{"name":"Environmental bioindicators","volume":"23 1","pages":"121-122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15555270903031710","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60026290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Freshwater Inflow Biotic Index (FIBI) for the Lavaca-Colorado Estuary, Texas","authors":"J. Pollack, J. Kinsey, P. Montagna","doi":"10.1080/15555270902986831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15555270902986831","url":null,"abstract":"Freshwater inflow is an important source of physical variability in estuaries. Effects of water flow are dynamic, and it is impossible to sample all conditions as they vary over space and time. Benthos, however, are fixed in place, continuously sample the overlying water conditions, and demonstrate a variety of consistent responses to multiple sources of stress. Benthic indices of biotic integrity (BIBIs) have been particularly useful for assessing aquatic systems. However most indices have focused on assessing effects related to changes in water quality rather than water quantity. This study develops a Freshwater Inflow Biotic Index (FIBI) to determine how changes in freshwater inflow affect benthic populations, which in turn reflect the ecological condition of an estuary. Based on benthic succession theory and long-term data, 12 biotic metrics were chosen that characterized benthic community structure in response to inflow regimes. The metrics were ranked and then reduced to one variable using principal...","PeriodicalId":92776,"journal":{"name":"Environmental bioindicators","volume":"4 1","pages":"153-169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15555270902986831","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60026232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comments on Climate Change/Global Warming in a Changing World: From Indicators to Action—An Introduction to the Special Issue on Biological Effects of Climate Change","authors":"P. Sammarco","doi":"10.1080/15555270902915194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15555270902915194","url":null,"abstract":"The fields of ecology and evolution vs. environmental science were once separate. This was to differentiate between the processes of natural selection and adaptation occurring in natural environments vs. those in which humans were consciously altering their environment, affecting their adaptation to that environment and thus their own evolution. Today, the fields of ecology, evolution, and environmental science are intimately linked, because all known ecosystems on earth have been affected by human activities. Those effects are now being documented back hundreds to thousands of years. Environmental indicators are used to sense levels of disturbance, primarily anthropogenic, to systems and also to monitor their recovery from such. The issue of whether climate change and global warming is a natural or anthropogenic phenomenon has been debated for decades. Now it is widely accepted as being a human-induced phenomenon linked to our society's introduction of increasing amounts of greenhouse gases, particularly...","PeriodicalId":92776,"journal":{"name":"Environmental bioindicators","volume":"4 1","pages":"4-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15555270902915194","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60025940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of Climate Variability on Interannual Variation in Parasites, Pathologies, and Physiological Attributes of Bivalves from the U.S. East, Gulf, and West Coasts","authors":"Yungkul Kim, E. Powell","doi":"10.1080/15555270802708830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15555270802708830","url":null,"abstract":"We analyzed weighted prevalence of various parasites and pathologies for 1995 to 2006 along with a set of physiological variables to determine the degree of concordancy in their interannual variations over 500-km stretches of coastline using data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) National Status and Trends “Mussel Watch” Program. The variables examined in mytilid mussels fell into three groups based on the temporal patterns observed: ceroid bodies, taxon richness, digestive tubule atrophy, and major pathologies varied concordantly along the Northeast and West Coasts. For reproductive stage, sex ratio, and gill ciliates, concordant temporal trends were limited to the northeast coast. Gregarines, found only in West coast mussels, behaved similarly to those variables falling into the first group. A final group, trematode metacercariae and sporocysts, tissue pathologies, and the prokaryotes, was characterized by limited concordancy. For oysters, a similar triplet of groups wa...","PeriodicalId":92776,"journal":{"name":"Environmental bioindicators","volume":"29 1","pages":"67-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15555270802708830","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60025988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of Climate Change/Global Warming on Coral Reefs: Adaptation/Exaptation in Corals, Evolution in Zooxanthellae, and Biogeographic Shifts","authors":"P. Sammarco, K. Strychar","doi":"10.1080/15555270902905377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15555270902905377","url":null,"abstract":"Increased sea-surface temperatures (SSTs) associated with climate change/global warming have caused bleaching in scleractinian corals (the loss of obligate symbiotic zooxanthellae) on a global basis, resulting in mass mortality of corals and decimation of reefs. This symbiotic relationship makes these corals an excellent bioindicator of climate change. It has been hypothesized that bleaching is a mechanism by which corals can adapt to changing environmental conditions via the “shuffling” of symbiont clades and acquisition of better-adapted symbionts. Experimental research has confirmed that zooxanthellae are sensitive to increases in seawater temperatures, exhibiting apoptosis (a form of programmed cell death) at temperatures of ≥30οC while in situ. The coral hosts, however, tolerate experimental temperatures up to 34οC, not showing signs of apoptosis and necrosis until 36οC. Thus, zooxanthellae currently appear to be poorly adapted to temperature increases, while the corals are resistant to higher temper...","PeriodicalId":92776,"journal":{"name":"Environmental bioindicators","volume":"4 1","pages":"9-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15555270902905377","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60025876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Amutha, G. Bupesh, R. Ramesh, P. Kavitha, P. Subramanian
{"title":"Cytochrome P450-Dependent Mixed Function Oxidases (MFO) System Dynamics During the Poly Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Metabolism in Green Mussel Perna Viridis (Linnaeus, 1758)","authors":"C. Amutha, G. Bupesh, R. Ramesh, P. Kavitha, P. Subramanian","doi":"10.1080/15555270902724117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15555270902724117","url":null,"abstract":"Polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH's) are the prominent and most common pollutants in aquatic environments, particularly in marine water. The discharge of hydrocarbons into the sea might be of great concern for marine species living close to dumping sites. Therefore, toxicological properties of hydrocarbons released into marine environments need to be evaluated. PAH pollution potential may be predicted by assessing the induction of hepatic cytochrome P450-associated enzyme activity. The inducibility and activity of phase I reduction nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate, reduced (NADPH) cytochrome c reductase (CCR), cytochrome c oxidase (COX) and three CYP450 isoforms (benzyloxyresorufin - O-dealkylase [BROD], ethoxyresorufin-O-dealkylase [EROD] and methoxyresorufin-O-dealkylase [MROD] ) enzymes were measured in the hepatic S9 fraction prepared from Perna viridis collected from three sites: a highly oil-polluted site (Kasimedu fishing harbor, Rayapuram, Chennai [Station1]); a moderately polluted off-sho...","PeriodicalId":92776,"journal":{"name":"Environmental bioindicators","volume":"4 1","pages":"97-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15555270902724117","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60025626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}