Consistency in diatom response to metal-contaminated environments

S Morin, A Cordonier, I Lavoie, A Arini, S Blanco… - Emerging and priority …, 2012 - Springer
Diatoms play a key role in the functioning of streams, and their sensitivity to many
environmental factors has led to the development of numerous diatom-based indices used …

The periphyton as a multimetric bioindicator for assessing the impact of land use on rivers: an overview of the Ardières-Morcille experimental watershed (France)

B Montuelle, U Dorigo, A Bérard, B Volat… - Global Change and …, 2010 - Springer
Developing new biological indicators for monitoring toxic substances is a major
environmental challenge. Intensive agricultural areas are generally pesticide-dependent …

Long-term survey of heavy-metal pollution, biofilm contamination and diatom community structure in the Riou Mort watershed, South-West France

S Morin, TT Duong, A Dabrin, A Coynel, O Herlory… - Environmental …, 2008 - Elsevier
In a metal-polluted stream in the Riou Mort watershed in SW France, periphytic biofilm was
analyzed for diatom cell densities and taxonomic composition, dry weight and metal bio …

Mixed effects of effluents from a wastewater treatment plant on river ecosystem metabolism: subsidy or stress?

I Aristi, D von Schiller, M Arroita, D Barceló… - Freshwater …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The effluents of wastewater treatment plants (WWTP s) include a complex mixture of
nutrients and pollutants. Nutrients can subsidise autotrophic and heterotrophic organisms …

Use of diatom life-forms and ecological guilds to assess pesticide contamination in rivers: lotic mesocosm approaches

F Rimet, A Bouchez - Ecological indicators, 2011 - Elsevier
The persistence of pesticides in the environment and their effects are a cause of concern to
more and more people, and so in 2009 the French government announced plans to reduce …

Lipid composition of Chlorella vulgaris (Trebouxiophyceae) as a function of different cadmium and phosphate concentrations

MA Chia, AT Lombardi, GM Maria da Graça… - Aquatic toxicology, 2013 - Elsevier
Fatty acids are the fundamental structural components of membrane lipids, and the degree
of saturation of the long hydrocarbon chains in microalgae contributes to regulation of …

The use of copper as plant protection product contributes to environmental contamination and resulting impacts on terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity and ecosystem …

S Pesce, L Mamy, W Sanchez, J Artigas… - … Science and Pollution …, 2024 - Springer
Copper-based plant protection products (PPPs) are widely used in both conventional and
organic farming, and to a lesser extent for non-agricultural maintenance of gardens …

Insights into the Toxicity of Triclosan to Green Microalga Chlorococcum sp. Using Synchrotron-Based Fourier Transform Infrared Spectromicroscopy: Biophysiological …

X Xin, G Huang, C An, C Huang, H Weger… - … science & technology, 2018 - ACS Publications
This study investigated the toxicity of triclosan to the green microalga Chlorococcum sp.
under multiple environmental stressors. The interactions between triclosan and …

Influence of phosphorus on copper sensitivity of fluvial periphyton: the role of chemical, physiological and community-related factors

A Serra, H Guasch, W Admiraal, HG Van der Geest… - Ecotoxicology, 2010 - Springer
The influence of eutrophication of fluvial ecosystems (caused by increased phosphorus
concentrations) on periphyton Cu sensitivity is explored from a multi-scale perspective …

PO43− dependence of the tolerance of autotrophic and heterotrophic biofilm communities to copper and diuron

A Tlili, A Bérard, JL Roulier, B Volat, B Montuelle - Aquatic Toxicology, 2010 - Elsevier
Pollution-induced community tolerance (PICT) concept is based on the assumption that the
toxicant exerts selection pressure on the biological communities when exposure reaches a …