A5063343038- Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- Ionic liquids properties and applications
- Analytical chemistry methods development
- Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies
- Advanced oxidation water treatment
- Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity
- Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications
- Heavy metals in environment
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
- Mercury impact and mitigation studies
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity
- Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
- Rabies epidemiology and control
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
University of Aveiro
2014-2024
Marine Research Centre
2021
Autonomous University of Campeche
2017
Wildfires constitute a source of contamination to both freshwater and marine ecosystems. This study aimed compare the antioxidant defense response clam Corbicula fluminea cockle (Cerastoderma edule) wildfire ash exposure concomitant metal body burden. Organisms were exposed different concentrations (0%, 12.5%, 25%, 50%, 100%) aqueous extracts Eucalypt (AEAs) from moderate-to-high severity wildfire. The activity various enzymes, as well lipid peroxidation, protein content, burden, determined...
Pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) have been consumed in great extension most of these are found water bodies, owing to the inefficiency conventional wastewater treatments. To face against recalcitrant contaminants, advanced oxidation processes such as photocatalysis ozonation studied. Moreover, combination technologies can improve degradation PPCPs, reducing ozone consumption effluent toxicity with presence photocatalysts. In particular, this study aimed evaluate effects...
Zwitterionic compounds are less ecotoxic than their analogous ionic liquids.
The efficiency of ozonation depends on the water matrix and reaction time. Herein, these factors were addressed by assessing removal five pharmaceutical personal care products (PPCPs) ozonation. main aims were: (i) to assess effects degradation kinetics PPCPs, individually in mixture, following ozonation; (ii) ecotoxicological impact ozone time treatment a spiked municipal wastewater (MW) added PPCPs over several species. was faster ultrapure water, with all being removed 20 min, whereas MW,...
Forest fires can threaten amphibians because ash-associated contaminants transported by post-fire runoff impact both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Still, the effects of these on skin microbiome have been overlooked. Thus, main objective this study was to assess ash from different severity wildfires (moderate high) Iberian frog (Rana iberica). Bacterial isolates sampled R. iberica were tested for their antimicrobial activity against pathogen Aeromonas salmonicida. The with identified...
Environmental contamination influences the diversity of resident skin microbial community amphibians, ultimately affecting individual's immune system. Wildfires are expected to impact microbiome, since post-fire runoff typically transports hazardous substances, that can affect terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The present study is first assess effects Eucalypt Pine wildfire ash on cultivable bacterial isolates from microbiome in particular fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra), a common...
The application of bio-based biodegradable mulch films in agriculture has raised environmental concerns regarding their potential impacts on adjacent freshwater ecosystems. This study investigated the biodegradation microplastics derived from a (bio-MPs) and its acute chronic ecotoxicity considering relevant scenarios (up to 200 250 mg/kg sediment, using pristine and/or UV-aged particles), fungus Penicillium brevicompactum dipteran Chironomus riparius as model organisms, respectively, due...
Integrative toxicological approaches are crucial to understand the “whole picture” regarding environmental hazardous potential of solvents license.
Health, distribution and life-history of aquatic crustaceans strongly depend on water hardness. However hardness is commonly correlated with alkalinity, which highlights the need to assess joint effects both alkalinity. This study aims test hypothesis that alkalinity affect parameters (growth, reproduction population growth rate) D. longispina. Following this, life table experiments were carried out in order high levels versus low Low caused a significant reduction daphnids after 7-days...
The increasing consumption of pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) by humankind has been causing an accumulation contaminants (commonly referred to as emerging concern), in effluents water resources. Ozonation can be used improve the removal these during treatment alleviate this burden. In work, degradation methyl (MP), propylparaben (PP), paracetamol (PCT), sulfamethoxazole (SMX), carbamazepine (CBZ) ozonation was assessed both for individual compounds mixtures with complexity...
Abstract In aquatic invertebrate (e.g., daphnids and Artemia sp.) zebrafish cultures, in ecotoxicological bioassays, or when addressing complex population‐level experimental designs, the counting of an organism's progeny is often required. This process laborious, repetitive, time‐consuming, potentially posing health hazards to operators, necessarily entailing a higher likelihood human error. We present evaluation computer‐based device for neonates ( Daphnia magna , longispina Ceriodaphnia...