A5012897912- Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Pesticide Residue Analysis and Safety
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
- Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Computational Drug Discovery Methods
- Agricultural safety and regulations
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Polar Research and Ecology
- Analytical chemistry methods development
- Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications
- Odor and Emission Control Technologies
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
- Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
University of Milano-Bicocca
2016-2025
University of Milan
2005-2021
Mylan (Switzerland)
2017
Milano University Press
2017
Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași
2016
NILU
2005
Lancaster University
2005
The use of pesticides in households and peri-urban areas the Amazon has increased notably during last years. Yet, presence these contaminants Amazonian freshwater ecosystems remains unexplored. Here, we assessed exposure to 18 5 transformation products River urban streams Manaus, Santarém, Macapá, Belém (Brazil). Pesticide concentrations were analyzed by liquid gas chromatography methods. Ecological risks following a two-tiered approach. First, hazard quotients an overall index calculated...
The Amazon is the largest river by discharge volume and one of most biodiverse biomes in world. Lately, there has been a rapid increase urban population region, which translated into growing emission organic contaminants such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) surface water bodies. This study provides comprehensive evaluation PAH contamination levels waters basin. We investigated occurrence potential sources 16 priority PAHs characterised their risks for freshwater ecosystems. For...
Urban areas in the Brazilian Amazon have grown at an unprecedented rate during last years. About 90% of wastewater produced by these urban are discharged untreated into Amazonian freshwater ecosystems, constituting a potential environmental pathway for pharmaceuticals and other chemicals consumed modern societies (e.g. psychostimulants, personal-care products, hormones). The distribution River their risks biodiversity not been evaluated so far. Here, we show results largest chemical...
A range of anthropogenic factors are causing unprecedented bee declines. Among these drivers the usage pesticides is believed to be crucial. While use key bee-harming insecticides, such as neonicotinoids, has been reduced by regulatory authorities, novel, less studied substances have occupied their market niche. Understanding threat chemicals bees is, therefore, crucial conservation. Here we focus on sulfoxaflor, a novel insecticide, targeting same neural receptor neonicotinoids. In stark...
The detection of nanoplastics (NPs) in the natural ecosystems is challenging due to size and low concentrations NPs. aim present study investigate presence NPs larvae two chironomid species (Diamesa zernyi Diamesa tonsa) colonizing high-altitude glacier-fed streams (Mandrone Amola streams, Trentino, Italy). analytical method developed this work combines enzymatic oxidative digestion followed by a purification step ethanol enable on-chip identification through Raman spectroscopic analysis. To...
The short-term fate of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) and organochlorine (OC) pesticides in the surface snowpack was investigated by taking consecutive air snow samples over a 12 day period at Tromsø Norwegian Arctic. A wide range PCB OC pesticide concentrations observed attributed to systematic decrease that occurred study period. For example, ΣPCB ranged from 2500 300 pg L-1 (meltwater) with rapid during first 96 h. Rates decline (ks) conformed first-order kinetics, similar rates for all...
In the first part of a broader study on effects individual and multicomponent mixtures pharmaceutical active compounds, authors used Microtox® test system to analyze in detail 10 widely human veterinary compounds toward bioluminescent bacterium Aliivibrio fischeri. The experimental results indicated moderate toxicity for majority tested compounds. Comparison between 50% inhibitory concentrations those predicted from quantitative structure-activity relationship models that most behave as...