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Impacts of chemical stress, season, and climate change on the flounder population of the highly anthropised Seine estuary (France)
The main objective of this study was to improve our knowledge on the responses of fish populations to multistress (diffuse pollution and warming waters) in estuaries. Adult flounders were caught in two estuari...
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An environmentally realistic pesticide and copper mixture impacts embryonic development and DNA integrity of the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas
Frequent occurrences of pesticides in the environment have raised concerns that combined exposure to these chemicals may result in enhanced toxicity through additive or synergistic interaction between compound...
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Health indicators and contaminant levels of a critically endangered species in the Gironde estuary, the European sturgeon
The European sturgeon, Acipenser sturio, is a highly endangered species that almost disappeared in the last decades. Thanks to yearly restocking of the population, this species is still found in the Gironde estua...
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Application of a multidisciplinary and integrative weight-of-evidence approach to a 1-year monitoring survey of the Seine River
Quality assessment of environments under high anthropogenic pressures such as the Seine Basin, subjected to complex and chronic inputs, can only be based on combined chemical and biological analyses. The prese...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Swimming Behavior and Acetylcholinesterase Activity of the D-Larvae of the Mediterranean Mussel Mytilus Galloprovincialis Exposed to Copper and/or Silver at Different Temperatures
Coastal marine ecosystems are subjected to both anthropogenic and natural pressures that put aquatic organisms under multi-stress situations. Trace metals represent the most widespread potential concern in the...
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Using an Integrated Approach to Assess the Sediment Quality of an Mediterranean Lagoon, the Bizerte Lagoon (Tunisia)
The present study investigates the quality of surface sediments from the Bizerte lagoon (North Tunisia) using an integrated approach including chemical contaminant analysis, bioassays and sediment quality guid...
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Psychotropic drugs in mixture alter swimming behaviour of Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes) larvae above environmental concentrations
Psychiatric pharmaceuticals, such as anxiolytics, sedatives, hypnotics and antidepressors, are among the most prescribed active substances in the world. The occurrence of these compounds in the environment, as...
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Developmental toxicity of PAH mixtures in fish early life stages. Part II: adverse effects in Japanese medaka
In aquatic environments, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) mostly occur as complex mixtures, for which risk assessment remains problematic. To better understand the effects of PAH mixture toxicity on fis...
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Development of a reference artificial sediment for chemical testing adapted to the MELA sediment contact assay
Most persistent organic pollutants, due to their hydrophobic properties, accumulate in aquatic sediments and represent a high risk for sediment quality. To assess the toxicity of hydrophobic pollutants, a nove...