We study marine pollution using an integrated chemical-biological approach; developing tools combining biological testing and chemical analysis for monitoring and assessment of pollutants and their biological effects.
Construction of an ecotoxicological data-base compiling the sensitivity of early life stages of marine organisms representative of the main marine taxa in order to derive scientifically sound Water Quality Criteria, and Sediment Quality Criteria for the main regulated and emerging chemical pollutants with relevance for Risk Assessment in coastal environments (toxicity thresholds, estimated as EC10 (concentrations reducing by a 10% a fitness-relevant biological trait such as embryo development, larval survival or growth, for a series of chemicals).
Echinoderms: Paracentrotus lividus (Lamarck, 1816)
Mollusks: Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819
Ruditapes decussatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Venerupis corrugata (Gmelin, 1791)
Ascidaceans: Ciona intestinalis (Linnaeus, 1767)
Fish: Scophthalmus maximus (Linnaeus, 1758)
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