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Earthworm cast production as a new behavioural biomarker for toxicity testing.
2010
Capowiez , Yvan (INRA , Avignon (France). UR 1115 Unité de recherche Plantes et Systèmes de Culture Horticoles) | Dittbrenner , Nils (INRA , Avignon (France). UR 1115 Unité de recherche Plantes et Systèmes de Culture Horticoles) | Rault-Léonardon , Magali (INRA , Avignon (France). UMR 0406 Abeilles et Environnement) | Triebskorn , Rita (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen(Allemagne).) | Hedde , Mickaël (INRA , Versailles (France). UR 0251 Physico-chimie et Ecotoxicologie des Sols d'agrosystèmes contaminés) | Mazzia , Christophe (INRA , Avignon (France). UMR 0406 Abeilles et Environnement)
There is currently a lack of ecotoxicity tests adapted to earthworm species of higher ecological relevance and whose endpoints could be directly related to their ecological role in the soil. We propose a new and relatively simple ecotoxicity test based on the estimation of cast production (CP) by Lumbricus terrestris under laboratory conditions. CP was found to be linearly correlated to earthworm biomass and to be greatly influenced by soil water content. Azinphos-methyl had no effect on CP at all the concentrations tested. Significant decreases were observed at the normal application rate for other pesticides with (imidacloprid, carbaryl, methomyl) or without (ethyl-parathion and chlorpyrifos-ethyl) a clear concentration–effect response. For the highest concentration tested, reduction in CP varied between 35 and 67%. CP is straightforward and rapidly measured and ecologically meaningful. We thus believe it to be of great use as an endpoint in ecotoxicity testing.
Show more [+] Less [-]New critical levels for ozone effects on young trees based on AOT 40 and simulated leaf uptake of ozone
2004
Karlsson, Pererik | Uddling, Johan | Braun, Sabine | Broadmeadow, Mark | Elvira, Susana | Gimeno, Benjamin | Le Thiec, Didier, | Oksanen, Elina | Vandermeiren, Karine | Wilkinson, Matthew | Emberson, Lisa
New critical levels for ozone effects on young trees based on AOT 40 and simulated leaf uptake of ozone
2004
Karlsson, Pererik | Uddling, Johan | Braun, Sabine | Broadmeadow, Mark | Elvira, Susana | Gimeno, Benjamin | Le Thiec, Didier | Oksanen, Elina | Vandermeiren, Karine | Wilkinson, Matthew | Emberson, Lisa | Swedish Environmental Research Institute (IVL) | Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences ; Göteborgs Universitet = University of Gothenburg (GU) | Institute for Applied Plant Biology ; Partenaires INRAE | Forest Research [Great Britain] | Ecotoxicidad de la Contaminacion Atmosferica ; Partenaires INRAE | Ecologie et Ecophysiologie Forestières [devient SILVA en 2018] (EEF) ; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de Lorraine (UL) | University of Joensuu | Sciensano [Bruxelles] ; Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP) | Stockholm Environment Institute at York (SEI-YORK) ; University of York [York, UK]
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