Search results for "vesien saastuminen"

Sulfate sensitivity of aquatic organism in soft freshwaters explored by toxicity tests and species sensitivity distribution

2023

Elevated concentrations of sulfate in waterways are observed due to various anthropogenic activities. Elevated levels of sulfate can have harmful effects on aquatic life in freshwaters: sulfate can cause osmotic stress or specific ion toxicity in aquatic organisms, especially in soft waters where Ca2+ and Mg2+ concentrations are low. Formerly, chronic toxicity test data in soft water have been scarce. The chronic and acute sulfate toxicity tests conducted with aquatic organisms from 10 families across various trophic levels in this study multiplied the number of tests conducted in soft freshwater conditions and enabled derivation of the species sensitivity distribution (SSD) and sulfate haz…

Anthropogenic changes in Finnish lakes during the past 150 years inferred from benthic invertebrates and their sedimentary remains

2004

Järvien kuormitus-, rehevöitymis- ja palautumishistoria on ollut monivaiheinen ja pitkäkestoinen. Monet teollisuuden ja asumajätevesien kuormittamista järvistämme olivat lähes luonnontilaisia vielä 1900-luvun alussa, likaantuivat myöhemmin voimakkaasti, mutta ovat sittemmin alkaneet elpyä. Hajakuormituksesta kärsivissä järvissä rehevöityminen sen sijaan on edelleenkin jatkunut. Tämä selviää Juhani Hynysen vesistöjen ympäristöhistoriaa käsittelevässä väitöskirjassa, jossa hän on tutkinut puunjalostusteollisuuden kuormituksen, asumajätevesien sekä hajakuormituksen vaikutuksia suurten järvien biologisen tilan kehitykseen noin 1800-luvun puolivälistä nykypäivään. This thesis focuses on two them…

New applications of zoobenthos measurements for risk assessment of chemicals in aquatic ecosystems

2015

Artikkeliväitöskirja. Yhteenveto-osa ja viisi artikkelia. (Artikkelit eivät avoimesti saatavilla.) Article dissertation. An introduction and five articles (not available in this version). Benthic animals in aquatic ecosystems suffer from various anthropogenic pollutants. A challenge in risk assessment of chemicals in aquatic ecosystems (i.e. ecological risk assessment) has been to balance cost-efficiency and effectiveness in detecting early warning signals of chemicals. In this study, hyperspectral imaging and behavioural measurements were evaluated as novel applications for detecting chemical effects on benthic animals, and the reliability of the incidence of chironomid morphological defor…

Environmental context determines pollution impacts on ecosystem functioning

2023

Global change assessments have typically ignored synthetic chemical pollution, despite the rapid increase of pharmaceuticals, pesticides and industrial chemicals in the environment. Part of the problem reflects the multifarious origins of these micropollutants, which can derive from urban and agricultural sources. Understanding how micropollutants harm ecosystems is a major scientific challenge due to asymmetries of stress across trophic levels and ecological surprises generated by multiple drivers interacting in human-impacted landscapes. We used field assays above and below municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in 60 sampling locations across 20 Swiss streams to test how micropoll…

Toxicity of biomining effluents to Daphnia magna : Acute toxicity and transcriptomic biomarkers

2018

Increasing metal consumption is driving the introduction of new techniques such as biomining to exploit low grade ores. The biomining impacts notably aquatic ecosystems, yet, the applicability of ecotoxicological tests to study the complex mixture effects of mining waters is insufficiently understood. The aim of the present work was to test if transcriptomic biomarkers are suitable and sensitive for the ecotoxicity assessment of biomining affected waters. The study site had been affected by a multimetal biomine, and the studied water samples formed a concentration gradient of contamination downstream from the biomining site. Cadmium and nickel were used as positive controls in the toxicity …

Hyperspectral Imaging of Macroinvertebrates : a Pilot Study for Detecting Metal Contamination in Aquatic Ecosystems

2018

The applicability of spectral analysis in detection of freshwater metal contamination was assessed by developing and testing a novel hyperspectral imaging (HSI) application for aquatic insect larvae (Trichoptera: Hydropsychidae). Larvae were first exposed to four different cadmium (Cd) concentrations: 0, 1, 10, and 100 μg L−1 for 96 h. Individual larvae were then preserved in ethanol, inspected with microscopy for the number of anomalies in larval gills, and imaged by hyperspectral camera operating with wavebands between 500 and 850 nm. Three additional larvae from each exposure were analyzed for tissue Cd concentration. Although the larval tissue Cd concentrations correlated positively wit…

Saastumisen kontrollin ideologia : vesien saastumisen ja vesirikosten kontrolli Suomessa vuosina 1960-2000

2011

Pohjan liejukerrostumat kertovat Jyväsjärven ympäristöhistorian

2001

Jyväsjärven ympäristöhistoriaa ja ekologisen tilan muuttumista 1700-luvulta nykypäiviin selvitettiin eliöjäänteiden ja sedimentin fysikaalisten ja kemiallisten ominaisuuksien perusteella. Liejunäytteistä tutkittiin 32 alkuaineen ja orgaanisten haitta-aineiden, kuten hartsihappojen, PCB:n, DDT:n ja sen hajoamistuotteiden esiintymistä sekä piilevien ja surviaissääsken toukkien jäänteitä. Tämän ajanjakson, runsaan kahden vuosisadan aikana Jyväsjärvi muuttui erämaajärvestä kaupunkijärveksi. Tämä jakso sisältyy Jyväsjärvessä noin 80 cm:n paksuiseen liejukerrokseen. Yhden vuoden tapahtumat mahtuvat tässä liejuisessa historiankirjassa sivuun, jonka paksuus vaihtelee esiteollisen ajan noin kahdesta…