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Instrumental Bioassays for Assessing Water, Soil, and Waste Toxicity

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The paper presents the main achievements of the Siberian Federal University in the field of environmental pollution biomonitoring. Methods for increasing the reproducibility of bioassay results by using a specialized instrumental set, maintaining controlled standard conditions, and automating processes are shown. Some approaches to solving the problems of insufficient sensitivity of test objects to pollutants and the long duration and high labor intensity of bioassays are presented. The described methods make it possible to study toxicity of various media (water, soil, waste), as well as to evaluate the impact of pollutants on organisms of different trophic levels. The issues of developing and implementing rapid methods for detecting toxicity of the analyzed media are considered.

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    Yu. S. Grigor’ev, T. L. Shashkova, E. S. Stravinskene, M. A. Subbotin, N. K. Artyna, A. A. Andreev, I. S. Kravchuk & K. V. Agafonov

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Translated from Meteorologiya i Gidrologiya, 2023, No. 5, pp. 96-106. https://doi.org/10.52002/0130-2906-2023-5-96-106.

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Grigor’ev, Y.S., Shashkova, T.L., Stravinskene, E.S. et al. Instrumental Bioassays for Assessing Water, Soil, and Waste Toxicity. Russ. Meteorol. Hydrol. 48, 460–466 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068373923050096

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