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Li X, Huang X, Du J, Zhang Y, Lu X, Jiang J, Wang G, Sun L. Predicting soil ecological criteria of 17 metal(loid)s in China based on quantitative ion character-activity relationship - Species sensitivity distribution (QICAR-SSD) coupled model. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 954:176266. [PMID: 39278495 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.176266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2024] [Revised: 08/27/2024] [Accepted: 09/12/2024] [Indexed: 09/18/2024]
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Soil pollution caused by metal(loid)s is increasingly serious and poses unexpected risks to terrestrial organisms. Establishing soil quality standards is essential for assessing ecological risks of metal(loid)s and protecting soil ecosystems. However, the limited availability of metal(loid) ecotoxicological data has hampered the development of soil quality standards due to financial and practical constraints on toxicity testing. This study collected 77 normalization equations and 58 cross-species extrapolation equations to calculate the normalized EC10 (the added concentration causing a 10 % inhibition effect) of metal(loid)s under a representative scenario. A set of quantitative ion character-activity relationship (QICAR) models were then constructed using normalized EC10 and nine critical ionic characters (AR, AR/AW, BP, MP, Z/r2, Z/r, Xm, σp, and |Log(KOH)|). Subsequently, these QICAR models were employed to predict ecotoxicological EC10 of 17 metal(loid)s to 12 soil species and coupled with species sensitivity distribution (SSD) to determine Predicted No Effect Concentration (PNEC). The results demonstrated the coupled QICAR-SSD model could effectively derive terrestrial PNEC for data-poor metal(loid)s, with errors between the predicted PNEC and reported soil standards (excluding soil background levels) from different countries mostly <0.3 orders of magnitude. Finally, soil ecological criteria (SEC) for 17 metal(loid)s were calculated using an added risk approach based on PNEC and national soil background concentration. Overall, the coupled model proposed here can provide a valuable supplement to the development of soil quality standards for numerous metal(loid)s in soil components.
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- Xuzhi Li
- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Management and Pollution Control, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Nanjing 210042, China
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- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Management and Pollution Control, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Nanjing 210042, China; College of Environment Science and Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225127, China
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- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Management and Pollution Control, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Nanjing 210042, China
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- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Management and Pollution Control, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Nanjing 210042, China
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- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Management and Pollution Control, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Nanjing 210042, China
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- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Management and Pollution Control, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Nanjing 210042, China
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- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Management and Pollution Control, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Nanjing 210042, China.
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- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Management and Pollution Control, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Nanjing 210042, China.
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Xu YQ, Huang P, Li XW, Liu SS, Lu BQ. Derivation of water quality criteria for paraquat, bisphenol A and carbamazepine using quantitative structure-activity relationship and species sensitivity distribution (QSAR-SSD). THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 948:174739. [PMID: 39009142 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2024] [Revised: 06/14/2024] [Accepted: 07/11/2024] [Indexed: 07/17/2024]
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The risk assessment of an expanding array of emerging contaminants in aquatic ecosystems and the establishment of water quality criteria rely on species sensitivity distribution (SSD), necessitating ample multi-trophic toxicity data. Computational methods, such as quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR), enable the prediction of specific toxicity data, thus mitigating the need for costly experimental testing and exposure risk assessment. In this study, robust QSAR models for four aquatic species (Rana pipiens, Crassostrea virginica, Asellus aquaticus, and Lepomis macrochirus) were developed using leave-one-out (LOO) screening variables and the partial least squares algorithm to predict toxicity data for paraquat, bisphenol A, and carbamazepine. These predicted data can be integrated with experimental data to construct SSD models and derive hazardous concentration for 5 % of species (HC5) for the criterion maximum concentration. The chronic water quality criterion for paraquat, bisphenol A, and carbamazepine were determined at 6.7, 11.1, and 3.5 μg/L, respectively. The QSAR-SSD approach presents a viable and cost-effective method for deriving water quality criteria for other emerging contaminants.
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- Ya-Qian Xu
- School of Global Health, Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China
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- Department of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710048, China
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- School of Global Health, Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China
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- Key Laboratory of Yangtze River Water Environment, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
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- Key Laboratory of Yangtze River Water Environment, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
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Shi W, Wang X, Xia T, Pu X, Bian J. Deriving ecological risk thresholds for soil molybdenum in China based on interspecies correlation estimation and quantitative ion character-activity relationship models. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2024; 472:134483. [PMID: 38703684 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.134483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2024] [Revised: 04/27/2024] [Accepted: 04/28/2024] [Indexed: 05/06/2024]
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Soil molybdenum (Mo) levels can reach ecologically hazardous levels. China has not yet established the relevant thresholds, posing challenges for environmental management. Therefore, we present our data relevant to Mo toxicity for several important species. By normalizing soil properties, we obtained a correlation model of Mo toxicity to Hordeum vulgare, as well as 31 models for the toxicity of other elements including Cu and Ni to invertebrates and microbial processes. Using interspecies correlation estimation (ICE) extrapolation, the sensitivity coefficient (0.12-0.71) for five plants were found. For invertebrates and microbial processes lacking Mo data, we used regression analysis to establish Mo toxicity models based on the soil quantitative ion character-activity relationships (s-QICAR; R2 =0.70-0.95) and known toxicities of other metal elements to invertebrate and microbial processes. Furthermore, combining species sensitivity distribution calculations, the HC5 values for protecting 95% of soil species from Mo in three typical soil scenarios in China were calculated. After correction, the predicted no-effect concentrations were 6.8, 4.8, and 3.4 mg/kg, respectively. This study innovatively combined ICE and s - QICAR to derive soil Mo thresholds. Our results can provide a basis for decision-making in the assessment and management of soil Mo pollution.
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- Wanyang Shi
- College of Resource Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China
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- College of Resource Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China.
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- Laboratory for Risk Modeling and Remediation of Contaminated Sites, Beijing Municipal Research Institute of Environmental Protection, 100037 Beijing, China
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- College of Resource Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China.
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- College of Resource Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China
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Li Q, Wang P, Wang C, Hu B, Wang X. A novel procedure for predicting chronic toxicities and ecological risks of perfluorinated compounds in aquatic environment. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2022; 215:114132. [PMID: 35995232 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.114132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2022] [Revised: 08/03/2022] [Accepted: 08/15/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) can pose adverse effect on aquatic species and community structure. However, little is known about how the characteristics of molecules of PFCs affect their chronic toxic potencies to aquatic species, and the species sensitivity distributions (SSDs) and ecological risk assessments of PFCs are hampered by limited available data of chronic toxicity. In the present study, a novel procedure is proposed to obtain the ecological risk of PFCs using existing exposure concentrations of PFCs and SSDs integrated with the chronic toxicity prediction through robust QSAR models. The results showed that the energy of the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (ELUMO) exhibited the strongest correlation with the chronic toxicities of 15 PFCs (R2 > 0.844, F > 16.206, p < 0.05). SSDs of 15 PFCs on eight species were first constructed, and the SSD fitting parameters were significantly correlated with ELUMO (R2 > 0.610, F > 19.471, p < 0.05). The QSAR-SSDs support the evaluation of hazardous criteria of PFCs for which data are lacking. Given environmental exposure distributions (EEDs) of the national presence of PFCs in aquatic systems in China, the QSAR-SSDs models allow the development of the ecological risk assessment for PFCs. This way, it was concluded that negligible environmental risk (defined as 5% of the species being potentially exposed to concentrations able to cause effects in < 5% of the case) could be expected from exposure to PFCs in surface waters in China. This method may be helpful for providing an evidence-based approach to guide the risk management for PFCs in aquatic environment.
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- Qiang Li
- Key Laboratory of Integrated Regulation and Resources Development on Shallow Lakes, Ministry of Education, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210098, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Integrated Regulation and Resources Development on Shallow Lakes, Ministry of Education, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210098, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Integrated Regulation and Resources Development on Shallow Lakes, Ministry of Education, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210098, China
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- Key Laboratory of Integrated Regulation and Resources Development on Shallow Lakes, Ministry of Education, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210098, China
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- Key Laboratory of Integrated Regulation and Resources Development on Shallow Lakes, Ministry of Education, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210098, China
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Hong Y, Feng C, Jin X, Xie H, Liu N, Bai Y, Wu F, Raimondo S. A QSAR-ICE-SSD model prediction of the PNECs for alkylphenol substances and application in ecological risk assessment for rivers of a megacity. ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL 2022; 167:107367. [PMID: 35944286 PMCID: PMC10015408 DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2022.107367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2022] [Revised: 06/04/2022] [Accepted: 06/18/2022] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Alkylphenols (APs) are ubiquitous and generally present in higher residue levels in the environment. The present work focuses on the development of a set of in silico models to predict the aquatic toxicity of APs with incomplete/unknown toxicity data in aquatic environments. To achieve this, a QSAR-ICE-SSD model was constructed for aquatic organisms by combining quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR), interspecies correlation estimation (ICE), and species sensitivity distribution (SSD) models in order to obtain the hazardous concentrations (HCs) of selected APs. The research indicated that the keywords "alkylphenol" and "nonylphenol" were most commonly studied. The selected ICE models were robust (R2: 0.70-0.99; p-value < 0.01). All models had a high reliability cross- validation success rates (>75%), and the HC5 predicted with the QSAR-ICE-SSD model was 2-fold than that derived with measured experimental data. The HC5 values demonstrated nearly linear decreasing trend from 2-MP to 4-HTP, while the decreasing trend from 4-HTP to 4-DP became shallower, indicates that the toxicity of APs to aquatic organisms increases with the addition of alkyl carbon chain lengths. The ecological risks assessment (ERA) of APs revealed that aquatic organisms were at risk from exposure to 4-NP at most river stations (the highest risk quotient (RQ) = 1.51), with the highest relative risk associated with 2.9% of 4-NP detected in 82.9% of the sampling sites. The targeted APs posed potential ecological risks in the Yongding and Beiyun River according to the mixture ERA. The potential application of QSAR-ICE-SSD models could satisfy the immediate needs for HC5 derivations without the need for additional in vivo testing.
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- Yajun Hong
- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China; College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.
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- China National Environmental Monitoring Centre, Beijing, 100012, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.
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- United States Environmental Protection Agency, Gulf Ecosystem Measurement and Modeling Division, Gulf Breeze, Florida 32561, United States
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Wang X, Teng Y, Ji C, Wu H, Li F. Critical target identification and human health risk ranking of metal ions based on mechanism-driven modeling. CHEMOSPHERE 2022; 301:134724. [PMID: 35487360 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.134724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2021] [Revised: 04/15/2022] [Accepted: 04/22/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Huge amounts of metals have been released into environment due to various anthropogenic activities, such as smelting and processing of metals and subsequent application in construction, automobiles, batteries, optoelectronic devices, and so on, resulting in widespread detection in environmental media. However, some metal ions are considered as "Environmental health hazards", leading to serious human health concerns through affecting critical targets. Hence, it is necessary to quickly and effectively recognize the key target of metal ions in living organisms. Fortunately, the development of high-throughput analysis and in silico approaches offer a promising tool for target identification. In this study, the key oncogenic target (tumor suppressor protein, p53) was screened by network analysis based on the comparative toxicogenomics database (CTD). Some metal ions could bind to p53 core domain, impair its function and induce the development of cancer risk, but its mechanisms were still unclear. Therefore, a quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) model was constructed to characterize the binding constants (Ka) between DNA binding domain of p53 (p53 DBD) and nine metal ions (Mg2+, Ca2+, Cu2+, Zn2+, Co2+, Ni2+, Mn2+, Fe3+ and Ba2+). It had good robustness and predictive ability, which could be used to predict the Ka values of other six metal ions (Li+, Ag+, Cs+, Cd2+, Hg2+ and Pb2+) within application domain. The results showed strong binding affinity between Cd2+/Hg2+/Pb2+ and p53 DBD. Subsequent mechanism analyses revealed that first hydrolysis constant (|logKOH|) and polarization force (Z2/r) were key metal ion-characteristic parameters. The metal ions with weak hydrolysis constants and strong polarization forces could readily interact with N-containing histidine and S-containing cysteine of p53 DBD, which resulted in high Ka values. This study identified p53 as potential target for metal ions, revealed the key characteristics affecting the actions and provide a basic understanding of metal ions-p53 DBD interaction.
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- Xiaoqing Wang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research (YIC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shandong Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes, YICCAS, Yantai, 264003, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, PR China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research (YIC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shandong Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes, YICCAS, Yantai, 264003, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, PR China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research (YIC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shandong Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes, YICCAS, Yantai, 264003, PR China; Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266237, PR China; Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, PR China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research (YIC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shandong Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes, YICCAS, Yantai, 264003, PR China; Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266237, PR China; Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, PR China.
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research (YIC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shandong Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes, YICCAS, Yantai, 264003, PR China; Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, PR China.
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Le Faucheur S, Mertens J, Van Genderen E, Boullemant A, Fortin C, Campbell PGC. Development of Quantitative Ion Character-Activity Relationship Models to Address the Lack of Toxicological Data for Technology-Critical Elements. ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY 2021; 40:1139-1148. [PMID: 33315280 DOI: 10.1002/etc.4960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2020] [Revised: 06/09/2020] [Accepted: 12/09/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Recent industrial developments have resulted in an increase in the use of so-called technology-critical elements (TCEs), for which the potential impacts on aquatic biota remain to be evaluated. In the present study, quantitative ion character-activity relationships (QICARs) have been developed to relate intrinsic metal properties to their toxicity toward freshwater aquatic organisms. In total, 23 metal properties were tested as predictors of acute median effect concentration (EC50) values for 12 data-rich metals, for algae, daphnids, and fish (with and without species distinction). Simple and multiple linear regressions were developed using the toxicological data expressed as a function of the total dissolved metal concentrations. The best regressions were then tested by comparing the predicted EC50 values for the TCEs (germanium, indium, gold, and rhenium) and platinum group elements (iridium, platinum, palladium, rhodium, and ruthenium) with the few measured values that are available. The 8 "best" QICAR models (adjusted r2 > 0.6) used the covalent index as the predictor. For a given metal ion, this composite parameter is a measure of the importance of covalent interactions relative to ionic interactions. Toxicity was reasonably well predicted for most of the TCEs, with values falling within the 95% prediction intervals for the regressions of the measured versus predicted EC50 values. Exceptions included Au(I) (all test organisms), Au(III) (algae and fish), Pt(II) (algae, daphnids), Ru(III) (daphnids), and Rh(III) (daphnids, fish). We conclude that QICARs show potential as a screening tool to review toxicity data and flag "outliers," which might need further scrutiny, and as an interpolating or extrapolating tool to predict TCE toxicity. Environ Toxicol Chem 2021;40:1139-1148. © 2020 SETAC.
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- Séverine Le Faucheur
- Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, e2s-UPPA, IPREM, Pau, France, and University of Geneva, DEFSE, Uni Carl Vogt, Geneva, Switzerland
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- European Precious Metals Federation, Brussels, Belgium
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- Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Québec, Québec, Canada
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- Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Québec, Québec, Canada
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Albarano L, Lofrano G, Costantini M, Zupo V, Carraturo F, Guida M, Libralato G. Comparison of in situ sediment remediation amendments: Risk perspectives from species sensitivity distribution. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2021; 272:115995. [PMID: 33187838 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2020] [Revised: 10/27/2020] [Accepted: 11/02/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Contaminated sediment is a major issue for aquatic environments, but attention must be kept even during remediation activities that can negatively affect resident biota especially when applied in situ. For the first time, the species sensitivity distribution (SSD) approach was applied to amendments used for in situ sediment remediation considering 39 papers including both freshwater (F) and saltwater (S) effect data (i.e. n = 17 only F, n = 19 only S, and n = 3 both F and S). Toxicity data related to the application of activated carbon (AC), nano-Zero-Valent-Iron (nZVI), apatite (A), organoclay (OC) and zeolite (Z) were collected and analyzed. SSD curves were constructed by lognormal model providing comprehensive comparisons of the sensitivities of different species to the relative testing methods. Results indicated that Bacteria were the most sensitive group of testing organisms, while Crustaceans were the less sensitive. The hazardous concentration for 5% of the affected species (HC5) were derived to determine the concentration protecting 95% of the species. OC, A and Z presented both acute and chronic toxicity. The HC5 values in descending order are: AC (4.79 g/L) > nZVI (0.02 g/L) > OC, A and Z (1.77E-04 g/L). AC and nZVI can be considered safer than OC, A and Z in sediment remediation activities, even if in situ long-term effects remained still underexplored.
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- L Albarano
- Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant'Angelo, Via Cinthia 21, 80126, Naples, Italy; Department of Marine Biotechnology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, 80121, Napoli, Italy
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- Centro Servizi Metrologici e Tecnologici Avanzati (CeSMA), Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant'Angelo, Via Cinthia 21, 80126, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Marine Biotechnology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, 80121, Napoli, Italy
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- Department of Marine Biotechnology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, 80121, Napoli, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant'Angelo, Via Cinthia 21, 80126, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant'Angelo, Via Cinthia 21, 80126, Naples, Italy; Centro Servizi Metrologici e Tecnologici Avanzati (CeSMA), Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant'Angelo, Via Cinthia 21, 80126, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant'Angelo, Via Cinthia 21, 80126, Naples, Italy.
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Karthikeyan P, Marigoudar SR, Mohan D, Sharma KV, Ramana Murthy MV. Prescribing sea water quality criteria for arsenic, cadmium and lead through species sensitivity distribution. ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY 2021; 208:111612. [PMID: 33396132 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2020.111612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2020] [Revised: 10/29/2020] [Accepted: 11/03/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Water quality standards are essential for regulation of contaminants in marine environment. Seawater quality criteria (SWQC) for arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) have not been developed for India. The aim of this study is to derive the SWQC for the metals based on Species Sensitivity Distribution (SSD). Eight species of sensitive marine organisms belonging to five phyla were assessed for their sensitivity to toxicity of As, Cd and Pb. Median effective concentrations (EC50) and Median Lethal Concentrations (LC50) were derived from the acute toxicity bio-assays. No Observed Effect Concentrations (NOEC), Lowest Observed Effect Concentrations (LOEC) and chronic values were derived from chronic toxicity bio-assays. Diatoms were more sensitive to As with 96 h EC50 of 0.1 mg/l and copepods were more sensitive to Cd and Pb with 96 h EC50 of 0.019 mg/l and 0.05 mg/l respectively. Estimated NOECs ranged from 4.87 to 21.55 µg/l of As, 1.0 to 120 µg/l of Cd and 5.67 to 91.67 µg/l of Pb. Similarly, chronic values (µg/l) were in the range of 6.71-26.1, 1.38-170, and 7.67-91.67 of As, Cd and Pb respectively. The Criterion Maximum Concentration (CMC), Criterion Continuous Concentration (CCC) and Predicted No Effect Concentration (PNEC) values were prescribed as SWQC. The CMC (µg/l) of 19, 1.7 and 17 for As, Cd, and Pb were derived respectively for acute exposure during accidental marine outfalls. The CCC (µg/l) for As was 4.6, 1.1 for Cd and 5.9 for Pb are recommended as SWQC for protection of 95% of marine organisms. PNEC (µg/l) of 3.8 for As, 0.92 for Cd and 4.3 for Pb are suggested for highly disturbed ecosystems, shell fishing and mariculture uses of water bodies. These values are recommended as a baseline for site specific water quality criteria for the coastal waters of the country.
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- Panneerselvam Karthikeyan
- National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR), Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, NIOT Campus, Pallikaranai, Chennai 600100, India
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- National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR), Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, NIOT Campus, Pallikaranai, Chennai 600100, India.
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- National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR), Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, NIOT Campus, Pallikaranai, Chennai 600100, India
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- National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR), Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, NIOT Campus, Pallikaranai, Chennai 600100, India
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- National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR), Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, NIOT Campus, Pallikaranai, Chennai 600100, India
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Reese A, Voigt N, Zimmermann T, Irrgeher J, Pröfrock D. Characterization of alloying components in galvanic anodes as potential environmental tracers for heavy metal emissions from offshore wind structures. CHEMOSPHERE 2020; 257:127182. [PMID: 32534293 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.127182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2020] [Revised: 05/18/2020] [Accepted: 05/21/2020] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The impact of offshore constructions on the marine environment is unknown in many aspects. The application of Al- and Zn-based galvanic anodes as corrosion protection results in the continuous emission of inorganic matter (e.g. >80 kg Al-anode material per monopile foundation and year) into the marine environment. To identify tracers for emissions from offshore wind structures, anode materials (Al-based and Zn-based) were characterized for their elemental and isotopic composition. An acid digestion and analysis method for Al and Zn alloys was adapted and validated using the alloy CRMs ERM®-EB317 (AlZn6CuMgZr) and ERM®-EB602 (ZnAl4Cu1). Digests were measured for their elemental composition by ICP-MS/MS and for their Pb isotope ratios by MC ICP-MS. Ga and In were identified as potential tracers. Moreover, a combined tracer approach of the elements Al, Zn, Ga, Cd, In and Pb together with Pb isotope ratios is suggested for a reliable identification of offshore-wind-farm-induced emissions. In the Al anodes, the mass fractions were found to be >94.4% of Al, >26200 mg kg-1 of Zn, >78.5 mg kg-1 of Ga, >0.255 mg kg-1 of Cd, >143 mg kg-1 of In and >6.7 mg kg-1 of Pb. The Zn anodes showed mass fractions of >2160 mg kg-1 of Al, >94.5% of Zn, >1.31 mg kg-1 of Ga, >254 mg kg-1 of Cd, >0.019 mg kg-1 of In and >14.1 mg kg-1 of Pb. The n(208Pb)/n(206Pb) isotope ratios in Al anodes range from 2.0619 to 2.0723, whereas Zn anodes feature n(208Pb)/n(206Pb) isotope ratios ranging from 2.0927 to 2.1263.
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- Anna Reese
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht - Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, Institute of Coastal Research, Department Marine Bioanalytical Chemistry, Max-Planck-Straße 1, D-21502, Geesthacht, Germany; Universität Hamburg, Department of Chemistry, Institute for Inorganic and Applied Chemistry, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6, 20146, Hamburg, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht - Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, Institute of Coastal Research, Department Marine Bioanalytical Chemistry, Max-Planck-Straße 1, D-21502, Geesthacht, Germany; Technische Hochschule Lübeck, Department of Applied Natural Sciences, Mönkhofer Weg 239, D-23562, Lübeck, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht - Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, Institute of Coastal Research, Department Marine Bioanalytical Chemistry, Max-Planck-Straße 1, D-21502, Geesthacht, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht - Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, Institute of Coastal Research, Department Marine Bioanalytical Chemistry, Max-Planck-Straße 1, D-21502, Geesthacht, Germany; Montanuniversität Leoben, Department of General, Analytical and Physical Chemistry, Chair of General and Analytical Chemistry, Franz Josef-Straße 18, 8700, Leoben, Austria; University of Calgary, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht - Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, Institute of Coastal Research, Department Marine Bioanalytical Chemistry, Max-Planck-Straße 1, D-21502, Geesthacht, Germany.
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Li Z, Meng X, Wang Y, Wang X. Developing the relationship between metal ionic characters and ecological risk assessment screening values using QICAR. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2020; 27:32954-32961. [PMID: 32524404 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-020-09571-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2020] [Accepted: 06/01/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Metals are widely released and distributed in soil and may have a negative impact on terrestrial organisms. Over the past years, a series of criteria or standards for assessing the ecological risks and toxicity of metals have been published in many countries; however, few studies have investigated their metal ionic properties and toxicity. In the present study, the ecological risk assessment screening values (ERASV) recommended by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality were selected to investigate the correlation between metal toxicity and their ionic characters based on the hard and soft acids and bases (HSAB) concept. The results showed that more ionic characters were significantly correlated with ERASV using the HSAB theory, while only one metal ionic characteristic was correlated with ERASV in organisms. For borderline metal ions, maximum complex stability constants (log βn) and the softness (δp) of borderline ions were correlated with ERASV, while log βn and electronegativity (Xm) were significantly related to ERASV for borderline plus hard ions, and the boiling point (BP) and electron density (AR/AW) (AR indicates atomic radius and AW is atomic mass) were significantly related to ERASV for borderline plus soft ions. These results indicated that different metal ion characteristics play different roles in different types of metal toxicity in organisms and the mechanisms of toxicity are different. Based on these relationships, a set of quantitative ion characteristic parameter-activity relationship (QICAR) was developed. The QICAR predicted ERASV for metals that were reasonably consistent with those recommended by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, with differences between them generally < 2.0 orders of magnitude. However, there were discrepancies between the recommended and predicted values, and these discrepancies may be related to terrestrial geochemical properties. These soil properties should be further considered when developing QICAR models in future studies, such as soil type, organic matter, and pH. Overall, the QICAR models were able to determine the relationships between metal ionic properties and their toxicity and will be useful for assessing toxicity data on unknown toxic metals and will provide a basis for ecological assessment.
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- Zhitao Li
- Technical Centre for Soil, Agriculture and Rural Ecology and Environment, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Beijing, 100012, China
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- The Key Lab of Resource Environment and GIS, College of Resource Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, China
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- School of Space and Environment, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data-Based Precision Medicine, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China
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- The Key Lab of Resource Environment and GIS, College of Resource Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, China.
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Zhao YP, Wu R, Cui JL, Gan SC, Pan JC, Guo PR. Improvement of water quality in the Pearl River Estuary, China: a long-term (2008-2017) case study of temporal-spatial variation, source identification and ecological risk of heavy metals in surface water of Guangzhou. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2020; 27:21084-21097. [PMID: 32266614 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-020-08378-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2019] [Accepted: 03/09/2020] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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A series of environmental protective policies have been taken recently in the Pearl River Estuary (PRE) to alleviate water pollution; however, their influence on the reduction of heavy metals in estuarine water has not been known. This study selected Guangzhou as a representative city in the PRE and collected estuarine water monthly from 2008 to 2017 to track the variation of As, Hg, Pb, Cd, Cu, Zn, and Se. During the last decade, the high time-resolved record showed that the concentration of Hg, Pb, Cd, Cu, and Zn in estuarine water reduced by 39.5%, 91.0%, 86.2%, 74.6%, and 97.3%, respectively. However, the concentration of As kept in a stable range (1.89-2.69 μg L-1) and Se (0.17-0.65 μg L-1) increased slightly. The principal component analysis (PCA) and absolute principal component scores-multiple linear regression (APCS-MLR) results suggested that the upstream industrial effluents were major sources for Hg (45.5-92.7%), Pb (47.3-100%), Cd (42.0-90.6%), Cu (85.5-100%), and Zn (100%) and the geogenic source was major origin for As (84.6-98.3%) and Se (0-67.5%). The risk quotient of Hg, Pb, Cd, Cu, and Zn to aquatic organisms largely decreased from 0.03, 0.59, 0.03, 2.06, and 0.26 in 2008 to 0.02, 0.05, 0.006, 0.52, and 0.007 in 2017, respectively. The effective control of heavy metal pollution in the study area can be primarily due to the relocation of hundreds of polluting factories during the last decade.
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- Yan-Ping Zhao
- Guangdong Provincial Key laboratory of Emergency Test for Dangerous Chemicals, Guangdong Provincial Engineering Research Center for Online Monitoring of Water Pollution, Guangdong Institute of Analysis, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key laboratory of Emergency Test for Dangerous Chemicals, Guangdong Provincial Engineering Research Center for Online Monitoring of Water Pollution, Guangdong Institute of Analysis, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory for Water Quality and Conservation of the Pearl River Delta, Ministry of Education, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key laboratory of Emergency Test for Dangerous Chemicals, Guangdong Provincial Engineering Research Center for Online Monitoring of Water Pollution, Guangdong Institute of Analysis, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key laboratory of Emergency Test for Dangerous Chemicals, Guangdong Provincial Engineering Research Center for Online Monitoring of Water Pollution, Guangdong Institute of Analysis, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key laboratory of Emergency Test for Dangerous Chemicals, Guangdong Provincial Engineering Research Center for Online Monitoring of Water Pollution, Guangdong Institute of Analysis, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China.
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Hernández-Flores S, Santos-Medrano GE, Rubio-Franchini I, Rico-Martínez R. Evaluation of bioconcentration and toxicity of five metals in the freshwater rotifer Euchlanis dilatata Ehrenberg, 1832. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2020; 27:14058-14069. [PMID: 32036532 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-020-07958-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2019] [Accepted: 01/31/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Metals are widely used in modern society harming the environment; their toxicity cause environmental adverse effects to many organisms including zooplankton. This contribution employed: (a) acute and chronic toxicity tests, (b) epifluorescence image analysis, and (c) atomic absorption techniques, to analyze toxicity of four trace (copper, iron, nickel, and zinc), and one non-trace metals (mercury) on the freshwater rotifer Euchlanis dilatata. This work integrated results of Bioconcentration Factors (BCF's), sites of entry and accumulation and to determine mechanisms of uptake and toxicity of these five metals of the freshwater rotifer Euchlanis dilatata. This integral analysis enhanced our understanding of knowledge on: (a) the toxicity mechanisms, (b) sites of metal entry and concentration inside the rotifer, (c) bioconcentration and body burdens. As expected, Hg the non-trace metal used here, was the most toxic. Our results suggest that the toxicity is ameliorated in the rotifer by selecting feeding avoiding the most toxic particles and reducing adverse effects on reproduction, until mortality per se reduces reproduction. The chronic effect on ingestion rate was quite sensitive for all metals whereas reproduction was slightly affected. The combination of acute and chronic tests and determination of BCF's for each metal allowed calculation of the acute and chronic body burdens. Body burdens again confirmed that mercury was the most toxic metal of the five employed here.
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- Saraí Hernández-Flores
- Centro de Ciencias Básicas, Departamento de Química, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Avenida Universidad 940, C.P. 20100, Aguascalientes, Ags, Mexico
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- Centro de Ciencias Básicas, Departamento de Química, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Avenida Universidad 940, C.P. 20100, Aguascalientes, Ags, Mexico
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- Instituto de Salud del Estado de Aguascalientes. Laboratorio Estatal de Salud Pública, Av Siglo XXI 105, Morelos, Desarrollo Especial Centro de Morelos, 20270, Aguascalientes, Ags, Mexico
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- Centro de Ciencias Básicas, Departamento de Química, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Avenida Universidad 940, C.P. 20100, Aguascalientes, Ags, Mexico.
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Wang Y, Xu Z, Rume T, Li X, Fan W. Predicting and comparing chronic water quality criteria from physicochemical properties of transition metals. CHEMOSPHERE 2020; 244:125465. [PMID: 32050324 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.125465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2019] [Revised: 11/22/2019] [Accepted: 11/23/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Criteria continuous concentrations (CCCs) are the scientific basis for making sound environmental management decisions and assessing surface water quality. Transition metals are a group of elements, similar in physicochemical properties perpendicularly and horizontally across the Periodic Table, some of which are widely distributed in aquatic environments and can cause adverse effects on aquatic life and human health. Currently internationally recommended CCCs are available for only seven transition metals. It is challenging to derive CCCs for transition metals based on scarce empirical information. The present study found significant relationships between the suggested CCCs of transition metals and their nine physicochemical properties and an empirical model was developed to satisfactorily predict the CCCs of 56 transition metals by use of the most relevant parameter, r, for protecting aquatic ecosystems. Predicted values were largely consistent with the CCCs and CMCs predicted previously and over 80% predicted CMCs of transition metals are greater than or equal to their CCCs. The present study shows methodological advantages in obtaining CCCs, and provides reliable reference values for setting chronic WQC and assessing risk of transition metals.
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- Ying Wang
- School of Space and Environment, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China; Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data-Based Precision Medicine, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China; State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China; College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
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- School of Space and Environment, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China
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- School of Space and Environment, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China
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- School of Space and Environment, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China; Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data-Based Precision Medicine, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China.
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Feng C, Li H, Yan Z, Wang Y, Wang C, Fu Z, Liao W, Giesy JP, Bai Y. Technical study on national mandatory guideline for deriving water quality criteria for the protection of freshwater aquatic organisms in China. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2019; 250:109539. [PMID: 31521040 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2019] [Revised: 09/03/2019] [Accepted: 09/05/2019] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Water quality criteria are the basis for formulating environmental water quality standards, and are also an important part of environmental water protection and environmental management programs. The current study focused on a systematic discussion of the current research progress of water quality criteria theories and methodology for aquatic organisms both in China and internationally. This study also successfully pointed out key scientific issues which should be considered in the determination of water quality criteria guidelines from the following perspectives for a national strategy: the selection of pollutants; data collection and screening; species selection; water quality criteria derivation methods, and so on. For the first time, this study systematically introduced technology for the determination of water quality criteria guidelines for protecting aquatic organisms which was suitable for China's regional characteristics and national conditions. Furthermore, this study pointed out the key research directions which should be considered in the future construction of China's environmental criteria and management systems, in order to provide technical support for environmental protection and management projects.
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- Chenglian Feng
- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Environmental Pollution and Health, School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Foreign Environmental Cooperation Center, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China; Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences and Toxicology Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China.
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Meng X, Wang X, Ma Y, Wang Y. Development of a coupled model of quantitative ion character-activity relationships-biotic ligand model (QICARs-BLM) for predicting toxicity for data poor metals. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2019; 373:620-629. [PMID: 30953979 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.03.094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2018] [Revised: 03/18/2019] [Accepted: 03/21/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The biotic ligand model (BLM) is proposed as a tool to quantitatively evaluate biological toxicity of metals considering both metal speciation and the influence of environmental conditions. The model assumes that biological sites bind to metals as biotic ligands (BLs) and obtains a series of BLM parameters including conditional binding constants (K). However, developing a BLM for each metal and biology takes a lot of experimentation. In the present study, relationships between metal ionic characters and BLM parameter K were respectively investigated for three terrestrial organisms. The results showed that ionization potential was the most strongly related to log K for barley (R2 = 0.845, p < 0.01) and earthworm (R2 = 0.881, p < 0.01), and electronegativity index most significantly related to log K for lettuce (R2 = 0.835, p < 0.01). Based on these relationships, a set of quantitative ion character-activity relationships (QICARs) were developed for predicting log K of metals. Then the QICAR were coupled with BLM and a novel QICAR-BLM was constructed. Finally, the QICAR-BLM was applied to predict EC50 of other unknown-toxicity metals for selected species, and compensate for the lack of toxicity data for a large number of metals in soil.
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- Xiaoqi Meng
- The Key Lab of Resource Environment and GIS, College of Resource Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, China
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- The Key Lab of Resource Environment and GIS, College of Resource Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, China.
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Integrated Agro-environmental Pollution Control and Management, Guangdong Institute of Eco-environmental Science & Technology, Guangzhou, 510650, China.
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- School of Space and Environment, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China
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Zhao X, Wang H, Tang Z, Zhao T, Qin N, Li H, Wu F, Giesy JP. Amendment of water quality standards in China: viewpoint on strategic considerations. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2018; 25:3078-3092. [PMID: 27535149 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-016-7357-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2015] [Accepted: 08/01/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Water quality standards (WQS) are the most important tool for protection of quality of aquatic environments in China and play a decisive role in the management of China's aquatic environments. Due to limited scientific information available previously, WQS were developed largely based on water quality criteria (WQC) or WQS recommended by developed countries, which may not be suitable for current circumstances in China. The Chinese government recently initiated the revision of Environmental Quality Standards for Surface Water (EQSSW) (GB3838-2002) to meet the challenge of environmental protection. This review analyzed how the WQS developed and applied in China differ from those of more developed countries and pointed out that the lack of strong scientific bases for China's WQC pose major limitations of current WQS. We focus on discussing the six aspects that require high attention on how to establish a national WQC system to support the revision of WQS (Table 1) such as development of methodology, refining water function zoning, establish priority pollutants list, improving protection drinking water sources, development of site-specific water quality criteria, and field toxicity test. It is essential that China and other developing countries established a relatively mature system for promulgating, applying, and enforcing WQC and to implement a dynamic system to incorporate most recent research results into periodically updated WQS.
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- Xiaoli Zhao
- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China
- Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences and Toxicology Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Wang M, Tong Y, Chen C, Liu X, Lu Y, Zhang W, He W, Wang X, Zhao S, Lin Y. Ecological risk assessment to marine organisms induced by heavy metals in China's coastal waters. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2018; 126:349-356. [PMID: 29421111 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.11.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2017] [Revised: 11/08/2017] [Accepted: 11/13/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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China's coastal environment has been heavily affected by the loading of terrestrial pollutants in recent decades, and quantitative risk assessment is urgently needed to assess the ecological risks of China's coastal environment. We assessed the ecological risks induced by five heavy metals (including Cu, Zn, Pb, Hg and As) in China's coastal waters for three groups of marine organisms (including crustacean, fish and mollusc) based on data obtained from a nationwide unified coastal environment monitoring program consisting of 301 sampling sites. The results show that higher heavy metal concentrations occurred more frequently in the Bohai Sea and in the estuaries of major sea-going rivers. The ecological risks decreased in the following order: Bohai Sea>Yellow Sea>South China Sea>East China Sea. There was generally low ecological risk, but certain hotspots existed near Tianjin and Jinzhou, which had relatively high ecological risks caused by Cu and Zn.
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- Mengzhu Wang
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China.
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- Tianjin Environmental Sanitation Engineering Design Institute, Tianjin 300201, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China
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- School of Water Resources and Environment, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
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- College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Tianjin Architecture Design Institute, Tianjin 300074, China
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- Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Oslo 0349, Norway; College of Resources and Environment, Yangtze University, Wuhan 430100, China.
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Qie Y, Chen C, Guo F, Mu Y, Sun F, Wang H, Wang Y, Wang H, Wu F, Hu Q, Dang Z, Giesy JP. Predicting criteria continuous concentrations of metals or metalloids for protecting marine life by use of quantitative ion characteristic-activity relationships-species sensitivity distributions (QICAR-SSD). MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2017; 124:639-644. [PMID: 28249688 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.02.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2016] [Revised: 02/19/2017] [Accepted: 02/22/2017] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Marine pollution by metals has been a major challenge for ecological systems; however, water quality criteria (WQC) for metals in saltwater is still lacking. Especially from a regulatory perspective, chronic effects of metals on marine organisms should receive more attention. A quantitative ion characteristic-activity relationships-species sensitivity distributions (QICAR-SSD) model, based on chronic toxicities for eight marine organisms, was established to predict the criteria continuous concentrations (CCCs) of 21 metals. The results showed that the chronic toxicities of various metals had good relationships with their physicochemical properties. Predicted CCCs of six metals (Hg2+, Cu2+, Pb2+, Cd2+, Ni2+ and Zn2+) were in accordance with the values recommended by the U.S. EPA, with prediction errors being less than an order of magnitude. The QICAR-SSD approach provides an alternative tool to empirical methods and can be useful for deriving scientifically defensible WQC for metals for marine organisms and conducting ecological risk assessments.
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- Yu Qie
- State Key Laboratory of Environment Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- College of Public Management, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang 550000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environment Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environment Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Environment Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.
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- College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environment Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environment Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environment Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- Engineering Innovation Center, Southern University of Science and Technology, Beijing 100083, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Ecosystem Restoration in Industry Clusters, Ministry of Education, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- State Key Laboratory in Marine Pollution, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China; Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences and Toxicology Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon S7N 5B3, Canada
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Zheng L, Liu Z, Yan Z, Yi X, Zhang J, Zhang Y, Zheng X, Zhu Y. Deriving water quality criteria for trivalent and pentavalent arsenic. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2017; 587-588:68-74. [PMID: 28249751 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2016] [Revised: 01/16/2017] [Accepted: 02/01/2017] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Arsenic (As) is a common trace element whose oxidation states mainly include four types (-3, 0, +3, and +5), and inorganic As(III) and As(V) are regarded as the most commonly existing forms in aqueous environments. Generally, As(III) has a higher toxicity than As(V) due to the different mechanisms in arsenic toxicity. However, there are few studies about the water quality criteria (WQC) of As(III) and As(V) respectively because of the deficiency of arsenic toxicity data coming from diverse taxonomic groups. In this research, eight native Chinese aquatic organisms were adopted to conduct toxicity tests for As(III) and As(V) to supplement the published toxicity data. The species sensitivity distribution (SSD) method on the basis of the Log-normal model which was the most optimal among eight models was applied to derive WQCs of As(III) and As(V). Results showed that crustaceans were the most sensitive to As(III) and As(V) among all tested species, thus they could be a biological indicator, and the influence of pH values on arsenic toxicity was complex and species-specific. Besides, the sensitivity differences between native and non-native species were observed. Finally, a criterion maximum concentration (CMC) of 167 and 384μg/L for As(III) and As(V), and a criterion continuous concentration (CCC) of 42 and 44μg/L for As(III) and As(V) were derived using native species, regardless of pH values. The WQCs were also verified by other two methods of ETX 2.0 and species sensitivity rank.
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- Lei Zheng
- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Ecological Effect and Risk Assessment of Chemicals, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China; College of Water Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Ecological Effect and Risk Assessment of Chemicals, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Ecological Effect and Risk Assessment of Chemicals, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.
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- School of Food and Environment, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin 124221, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Ecological Effect and Risk Assessment of Chemicals, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Ecological Effect and Risk Assessment of Chemicals, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Ecological Effect and Risk Assessment of Chemicals, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, China
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Dong L, Zheng L, Yang S, Yan Z, Jin W, Yan Y. Deriving freshwater safety thresholds for hexabromocyclododecane and comparison of toxicity of brominated flame retardants. ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY 2017; 139:43-49. [PMID: 28109902 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2017.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2016] [Revised: 01/01/2017] [Accepted: 01/03/2017] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) is a brominated flame retardant used throughout the world. It has been detected in various environmental media and has been shown toxic to aquatic life. The toxic effects of HBCD to aquatic organisms in Chinese freshwater ecosystems are discussed here. Experiments were conducted with nine types of acute toxicity testing and three types of chronic toxicity testing. After comparing a range of species sensitivity distribution models, the optimal model of Bull III was used to derive the safety thresholds for HBCD. The acute safety threshold and the chronic safety threshold of HBCD for Chinese freshwater organisms were found to be 2.32mg/L and 0.128mg/L, respectively. Both values were verified by the methods of the Netherlands and the United States. HBCD was found to be less toxic compared to other widely used brominated flame retardants. The present results provide valuable information for revision of the water quality standard of HBCD in China.
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- Liang Dong
- National Research Centre for Environmental Analysis and Measurement, Beijing100029, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Lake Research Center of Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China; College of Water Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Lake Research Center of Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Lake Research Center of Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Lake Research Center of Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Lake Research Center of Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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Mu Y, Wu F, Zhao Q, Ji R, Qie Y, Zhou Y, Hu Y, Pang C, Hristozov D, Giesy JP, Xing B. Predicting toxic potencies of metal oxide nanoparticles by means of nano-QSARs. Nanotoxicology 2016; 10:1207-14. [PMID: 27309010 DOI: 10.1080/17435390.2016.1202352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND The enormous physicochemical and structural diversity of metal oxide nanoparticles (MeONPs) poses significant challenges to the testing of their biological uptake, biodistribution, and effects that can be used to develop understanding of key nano-bio modes of action. This has generated considerable uncertainties in the assessment of their human health and environmental risks and has raised concerns about the adequacy of their regulation. In order to surpass the extremely resource intensive case-by-case testing, intelligent strategies combining testing methods and non-testing predictive modeling should be developed. METHODS The quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSARs) in silico tools can be instrumental in understanding properties that affect the potencies of MeONPs and in predicting toxic responses and thresholds of effects. RESULTS The present study proposes a predictive nano-QSAR model for predicting the cytotoxicity of MeONPs. The model was applied to test the relationships between 26 physicochemical properties of 51 MeONPs and their cytotoxic effects in Escherichia coli. The two parameters, enthalpy of formation of a gaseous cation (▵Hme+) and polarization force (Z/r), were elucidated to make a significant contribution for the toxic effect of these MeONPs. The study also proposed the mechanisms of toxic potency in E. coli through the model, which indicated that the MeONPs as well as their released metal ions could collectively induce DNA damage and cell apoptosis. SIGNIFICANCE These findings may provide an alternative method for prioritizing current and future MeONPs for potential in vivo testing, virtual prescreening and for designing environmentally benign nanomaterials.
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- Yunsong Mu
- a State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences , Beijing , China
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- a State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences , Beijing , China
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- b Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shenyang , China
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- c State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University , Nanjing , China
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- a State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences , Beijing , China
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- c State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University , Nanjing , China
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- a State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences , Beijing , China
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- d Department of Environmental Sciences , Informatics and Statistics, University Ca' Foscari of Venice , Venice , Italy
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- d Department of Environmental Sciences , Informatics and Statistics, University Ca' Foscari of Venice , Venice , Italy
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- e Toxicology Centre, University of Saskatchewan , Saskatoon , Canada , and
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- f Stockbridge School of Agriculture, University of Massachusetts , Amherst , USA
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Liu WX, He W, Qin N, Kong XZ, He QS, Yang B, Yang C, Jorgensen SE, Xu FL. Temporal-spatial distributions and ecological risks of perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) in the surface water from the fifth-largest freshwater lake in China (Lake Chaohu). ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2015; 200:24-34. [PMID: 25686885 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2015.01.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2014] [Revised: 01/23/2015] [Accepted: 01/25/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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To investigate the residues, compositions, distributions and potential ecological risks of perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs), water samples were collected seasonally between August 2011 and November 2012 from 20 sites in Lake Chaohu and its tributary rivers. The mean concentration of total PFAAs (TPFAAs) was 14.46 ± 6.84 ng/L. PFOA was the predominant contaminant (8.62 ± 4.40 ng/L), followed by PFBA (2.04 ± 1.16 ng/L) and PFHxA (1.23 ± 1.50 ng/L). The TPFAAs concentrations peaked in August 2012 in each area, except for the western river. The opposite spatial trends were found for PFOA and PFOS in both the lake and river areas. Except for PFOS and PFUdA, the levels of TPFAAs and PFAAs were significantly related to the composition of fluorescent dissolved organic matter (FDOM) but not related to total DOM expressed by dissolved organic carbon (DOC). The risk of PFOS determined by a species sensitivity distribution model was notably above that of PFOA.
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- Wen-Xiu Liu
- MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban & Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban & Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban & Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban & Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban & Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban & Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban & Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Section of Toxicology and Environmental Chemistry, Institute A, University of Copenhagen, University Park 2, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban & Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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Chen C, Mu Y, Wu F, Zhang R, Su H, Giesy JP. Derivation of marine water quality criteria for metals based on a novel QICAR-SSD model. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2015; 22:4297-4304. [PMID: 25292300 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-3655-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2014] [Accepted: 09/24/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Establishment of water quality criteria (WQC) is one procedure for protection of marine organisms and their ecosystems. This study, which integrated two separate approaches, quantitative ion character-activity relationships (QICARs) and species sensitivity distributions (SSDs), developed a novel QICAR-SSD model. The QICARs predict relative potencies of individual elements while SSDs integrate relative sensitivities among organisms. The QICAR-SSD approach was applied to derive saltwater WQC for 34 metals or metalloids. Relationships between physicochemical properties of metal ions and their corresponding potencies for acute toxicity to eight selected marine species were determined. The softness index (σp) exhibited the strongest correlation with the acute toxicity of metals (r (2) > 0.66, F > 5.88, P < 0.94 × 10(-2)). Predictive criteria maximum concentrations for the eight metals, derived by applying the SSD approach to values predicted by use of QICARs, were within the same order of magnitude as values recommended by the US EPA (2009). In general, the results support that the QICAR-SSD approach is a rapid method to estimate WQC for metals for which little or no information is available for marine organisms.
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- Cheng Chen
- College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210098, China
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Shi R, Yang C, Su R, Jin J, Chen Y, Liu H, Giesy JP, Yu H. Weighted species sensitivity distribution method to derive site-specific quality criteria for copper in Tai Lake, China. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2014; 21:12968-12978. [PMID: 24984917 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-3156-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2014] [Accepted: 06/04/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Tai Lake (Ch: Taihu), which is the largest lake in Jiangsu province, China, has been affected by human activities. As part of a concerted effort to improve water quality to protect the integrity of the Tai Lake ecosystem, a water quality criterion (WQC) was developed for copper (Cu) II. The acute WQC was based on 440 values for acute toxicity of Cu to 24 species from 6 phyla, 16 families, and 20 genera. In addition, 255 values for chronic toxicity of Cu to 10 species from 5 phyla, 8 families, and 9 genera were used to derive chronic WQC. Instead of using a traditional approach based species sensitivity distributions (SSD), a weighted species sensitivity distribution (WSSD) approach was used to calculate the cumulative probability based on endemic species to Tai Lake. Acute and chronic WQC developed by use of the WSSD were 5.3 and 3.7 μg Cu/L, respectively. While the WQC values were comparable to those of other countries, there were slight differences due to variability in species composition of different regions. The site-specific criteria indicated that the current standard set for surface water by the Chinese government might not be protective of aquatic organisms in Tai Lake.
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- Rui Shi
- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
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