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The Tara Microplastics mission was conducted for 7 months to investigate plastic pollution along nine major rivers in Europe—Thames, Elbe, Rhine, Seine, Loire, Garonne, Ebro, Rhone, and Tiber. An extensive suite ...
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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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Correction to: From legacy pollutants to emerging contaminants: recent inputs from the 2018 conference of EcoBIM network
The original publication of this paper contains a mistake.
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From legacy pollutants to emerging contaminants: recent inputs from the 2018 conference of EcoBIM network
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European sturgeon Acipenser sturio is an anadromous fish species being classified “critically endangered” with only one remaining population in the Gironde-Garonne-Dordogne basin (France). In the global warming c...
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An environmentally realistic pesticide and copper mixture impacts embryonic development and DNA integrity of the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas
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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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Insights on Ecotoxicological Effects of Microplastics in Marine Ecosystems: The EPHEMARE Project
The Ephemare project was supported in the period 2015–2018 by JPI Oceans, as one of 4 sister projects in the joint action on ecological aspects of microplastics. Ephemare investigated several issues concernin...
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Microplastic Contamination of Sediment and Water Column in the Seine River Estuary
Nowadays, microplastic (MPs) pollution is well documented in marine ecosystems since the first publication alarming about marine plastic pollution in 1972 [1]. Similarly, continental contamination is more and mor...
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The primary source of pharmaceuticals to the aquatic environment is the discharge of wastewater effluents. Pharmaceuticals are a large and diverse group of compounds. Among them, psychotropic substances are pa...
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Since the end of the 1980s, white shrimps (Palaemon longirostris) from the Gironde estuary have exhibited exoskeletal malformations, mainly involving cephalothorax, rostrum, scaphocerites and uropods. An 8-month ...
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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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Japanese medaka embryos were exposed to environmental concentrations of cadmium (Cd) to investigate adverse and adaptive responses in fish early life stages. Embryos were exposed during their whole development...
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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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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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Open AccessCorrection: Corrigendum: Zebrafish Models for Human Acute Organophosphorus Poisoning
Terrorist use of organophosphorus-based nerve agents and toxic industrial chemicals against civilian populations constitutes a real threat, as demonstrated by the terrorist attacks in Japan in the 1990 s or, e...
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Open AccessZebrafish Models for Human Acute Organophosphorus Poisoning
Terrorist use of organophosphorus-based nerve agents and toxic industrial chemicals against civilian populations constitutes a real threat, as demonstrated by the terrorist attacks in Japan in the 1990 s or, e...
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PAHs and fish—exposure monitoring and adverse effects—from molecular to individual level
