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Evaluation of Bioindicators of Contaminant Exposure and Effects in Coastal Ecosystems

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Ecological Indicators

Abstract

The issue of chemical contamination of the coastal environment is gaining increasing importance in the balance between the need to use chemicals and the desire to conserve and protect the ecosystem. In grappling with the complexity of contaminant interactions in the aquatic environment (Fig. 28.1), it becomes evident, although not universally accepted, that to properly assess the impact of chemical pollution on the health of ecosystems, a better understanding of processes that are vital to the normal functioning of various components (e.g. individuals, populations, or communities) of the system must be developed. Accordingly, we have focused our investigations on contaminant interactions at subcellular, cellular, and tissue levels of marine organisms to identify indices that assess alterations in critical physiological and biological processes (Fig. 28.2), with the aim that some of these measurements may serve as early warning signals of individual, population, or community effects. The logic underlying such an approach is that for the pollutantinduced perturbations to be evident in the ecosystem, the first level of interaction has to be at the individual level. Moreover, cause and effect relationships between chemical contamination and observed changes at the population or community level are more difficult to establish than they are at the individual level.

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Varanasi, U., Stein, J.E., Johnson, L.L., Collier, T.K., Casillas, E., Myers, M.S. (1992). Evaluation of Bioindicators of Contaminant Exposure and Effects in Coastal Ecosystems. In: McKenzie, D.H., Hyatt, D.E., McDonald, V.J. (eds) Ecological Indicators. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4659-7_28

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