Species-specific sensitivity of three microalgae to sediment elutriates.
1:4 elutriate
Microalgae
Sediment
Sensitivity
Toxicity
Journal
Marine environmental research
ISSN: 1879-0291
Titre abrégé: Mar Environ Res
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9882895
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Apr 2020
Apr 2020
Historique:
received:
30
10
2019
revised:
03
02
2020
accepted:
03
02
2020
pubmed:
15
2
2020
medline:
10
7
2020
entrez:
15
2
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Microalgae are considered good bioindicators of marine environmental quality. Frequently, they are used to investigate the toxicity of sediment elutriates, but their sensitivity is disputed. This paper compared the sensitivity of Phaeodactylum tricornutum (diatom), Skeletonema costatum (diatom), and Dunaliella tertiolecta (green alga), analyzing 257 samples of elutriates (1:4 sediment: water ratio), considering growth inhibition (72 h) as the reference endpoint and sediment chemical (metals, metalloids and polyaromatic hydrocarbons) and grain size. Results of the toxicity tests showed that the microalgae sensitivity was not correlated. The integration of chemical data did not allow to discriminate toxicity effects but contributed to highlight that D. tertiolecta was the most sensitive microalgae (no cell wall) followed by P. tricornutum and S. costatum. Further analysis, including lines of evidence and weight of evidence approaches to calculate risk quotients of elutriate samples, confirmed these results.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32056796
pii: S0141-1136(19)30717-2
doi: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.104901
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Metalloids
0
Metals
0
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
0
Water Pollutants, Chemical
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
104901Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.