1. Marine sediment toxicity: A focus on micro- and mesocosms towards remediation
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Maria Costantini, Valerio Zupo, Giusy Lofrano, Luisa Albarano, Marco Guida, Giovanni Libralato, Albarano, L., Costantini, M., Zupo, V., Lofrano, G., Guida, M., and Libralato, G.
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Pollution ,Microcosm ,Environmental Engineering ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Environmental remediation ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Remediation ,010501 environmental sciences ,01 natural sciences ,Mesocosm ,Polychlorinated biphenyl ,Sediment contamination ,Environmental Chemistry ,14. Life underwater ,Marine sediment ,Waste Management and Disposal ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,media_common ,Environmental engineering ,Sediment ,Sediment remediation ,Contamination ,Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon ,13. Climate action ,Environmental science - Abstract
Micro- and/or mesocosms are experimental tools bringing ecologically relevant components of the natural environment under controlled conditions closest to the real world, without losing the advantage of reliable reference conditions and replications, providing a link between laboratory studies and filed studies in natural environments. Here, for the first time, a formal comparison of different types of mesocosm applied to the study of marine contaminants is offered, considering that pollution of coastal areas represented a major concern in the last decades because of the abundance of discharged toxic substances. In particular, the structural characteristics of micro- and mesocosms (m-cosms) used to study marine contaminated sediments were reviewed, focusing on their advantages/disadvantages. Their potentiality to investigate sediment remediation have been discussed, offering new perspective on how the use of m-cosms can be useful for the development of practical application in the development of solutions for contaminated sediment management in the contaminated marine environment. more...
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- 2020
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