Reliable environmentally realistic bioassay methodologies are increasingly needed to
assess the effects of environmental pollution. This study describes two estuarine sediment …

The pejerrey (Odontesthes bonariensis, Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1835) is an Atherinid fish
characteristic of the Southern sector of the 'del Plata'basin (Bonetto and Castello, 1985). This …

The initiative by the River Purification Boards (RPBs), National Rivers Authority (NRA) and
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution (HMIP) to control certain complex and toxic effluent …

Risk assessment and risk-based management approaches are becoming incorporated into
a wide range of disciplines as frameworks for use in critical decision-making pathways …

The application of scientific concepts to management decisions is a clear need nowadays.
The regulation of environmental pollutants requires the application of cost/benefit analysis …

Climate change and pollution are major drivers of global biodiversity loss and freshwater
ecosystems are particularly at risk from diffuse pollution from agrochemical landscapes. The …

Science has been defined as the knowledge covering general truths or the operation of
general laws obtained and tested through the scientific method. A peculiar aspect of …

Worldwide, estuaries are under increasing pressure from numerous contaminants. There is
a need to develop reliable bioassay methodologies to assess the effects of these stressors …

The pejerrey (Odontesthes bonariensis, Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1835) is an Atherinid fish
characteristic of the Southern sector of the 'del Plata'basin (Bonetto and Castello, 1985). This …

Individual, population, community and ecosystem are 4 successive levels in aquatic
ecotoxicolog2 ical study, and in this order the experimental complexity increases. Toxicity …