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ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2012

Effect-based tools for monitoring and predicting the ecotoxicological effects of chemicals in the aquatic environment.

Richard E Connon, Juergen Geist, Inge Werner

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Review in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.

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49citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

49 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Microbial Ecotoxicology-40 Years on.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  13. Effect of eight common Brazilian drugs on Lemna minor and Salvinia auriculata growth.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2021
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  15. Effects of organic mercury on Mytilus galloprovincialis hemocyte function and morphology.Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2021
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  18. On biological evolution and environmental solutions.The Science of the total environment · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Richard E ConnonSchool of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Juergen Geist
Inge Werner

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ecotoxicology faces the challenge of assessing and predicting the effects of an increasing number of chemical stressors on aquatic species and ecosystems. Herein we review currently applied tools in ecological risk assessment, combining information on exposure with expected biological effects or environmental water quality standards; currently applied effect-based tools are presented based on whether exposure occurs in a controlled laboratory environment or in the field. With increasing ecological relevance the reproducibility, specificity and thus suitability for standardisation of methods tends to diminish. We discuss the use of biomarkers in ecotoxicology including ecotoxicogenomics-based endpoints, which are becoming increasingly important for the detection of sublethal effects. Carefully selected sets of biomarkers allow an assessment of exposure to and effects of toxic chemicals, as well as the health status of organisms and, when combined with chemical analysis, identification of toxicant(s). The promising concept of "adverse outcome pathways (AOP)" links mechanistic responses on the cellular level with whole organism, population, community and potentially ecosystem effects and services. For most toxic mechanisms, however, practical application of AOPs will require more information and the identification of key links between responses, as well as key indicators, at different levels of biological organization, ecosystem functioning and ecosystem services.

Indexed as

Water QualityEcologyEcosystemEcotoxicologyEnvironmental MonitoringRisk Assessmentadverse outcome pathways, systems biologyaquatic toxicologybioassaysbiomarkersecological monitoringecosystem effectsecotoxicogenomicsecotoxicologytoxicity identification

Identifiers

PMID23112741
PMCPMC3478868

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