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Steven J. Wearne Martin G. de M. Gem Nigel Harrison Peter P. Collier Frank Fairweather Michael Fielding Andrew Franklin James R. Startin Roger J. Tregunno Heather Walton 《Environmental science and pollution research international》1996,3(2):83-88
A scheme has been developed to rank 70 industrial organic chemicals in order of their priority for further study as potential contaminants of food. Numerical scales were developed for the following seven key criteria concerning environmental issues, food and toxicity: -Production volume -Pattern of usage -Possible fate in the environment -Likelihood of chemical entering the food chain -Mechanism of entry into the food chain -Persistence and accumulation in the food chain -Toxicity. Each chemical was assigned a score for the above criteria, which were combined to give an overall ranking for the chemicals. This scheme has been endorsed by the MAFF Steering Group on Chemical Aspects of Food Surveillance. It will be used in the assessment of relative priorities for further non-statutory surveillance for these contaminants in the UK food supply. 相似文献
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Health risk assessment of dioxin emissions from municipal waste incinerators: the Neerlandquarter (Wilrijk, Belgium) 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Nouwen J Cornelis C De Fré R Wevers M Viaene P Mensink C Patyn J Verschaeve L Hooghe R Maes A Collier M Schoeters G Van Cleuvenbergen R Geuzens P 《Chemosphere》2001,43(4-7):909-923
Two municipal waste incinerators in the vicinity of a residential area close to the city of Antwerp caused concern to local habitants. Risk assessment was performed combining chemical, toxicological measurements and model calculations. As the first step in risk assessment an inventory was made of historic emissions from both incinerators with emphasis on dioxins. The operational atmospheric transport and deposition model for priority substances (OPS) was used to calculate the deposition of dioxins in the vicinity of incinerators. The observed soil contamination pattern did not correspond to the calculated deposition pattern, indicating that other sources may contribute at least partly to the local PCDD/PCDF contamination of the area. Dioxin exposure of people in the Neerlandquarter as a function of the food consumption behavior was calculated using a mathematical model (VLIER-HUMAAN) combined with transfer factors. According to the results of these calculations, just residing in the impact area does not result in a meaningful risk. Only if locally produced food was consumed (milk, meat and vegetables), exposure in the Neerlandquarter was enhanced compared to the average dioxin exposure estimated for the Flemish population. Exposure in 1997 was below the exposure in 1980. As a consequence of different eating habits and lower bodyweight, children are subjected to significantly higher exposure than adults. Adverse health outcomes from dioxin exposure in the past cannot be excluded. There was no evidence for enhanced exposure to genotoxicants based on a comparison of chromosomal damage to blood cells of children from the study area to those from a control group. 相似文献
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Mick Lennon Marcus Collier Karen Foley 《Journal of Environmental Planning and Management》2016,59(5):843-865
Recent years have witnessed a wave of interest in the concept of green infrastructure (GI) as a means of applying an ecosystem approach to spatial planning practice; however, more limited attention has been paid to decision-making processes or tools to enhance GI within spatial plans and guidance. We address this deficit by reporting on the development and application of an interactive group-based methodology to enhance GI ‘thinking’ and interdisciplinary collaboration, drawing on the literature on the sociology of interactions. Our findings suggest that a game-based approach to GI problem-solving was successful in breaking down professional barriers by creating an informal learning arena, providing an enabling opportunity for participants to solve problems in an iterative, non-linear style to develop principles for action with transferability to ongoing plan formation. This style of problem-solving was characterised by shifting norms and routines of interaction, leading to problem re-framing and a search for alternative solutions. 相似文献
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A Rapid Method to Score Stream Reaches Based on the Overall Performance of Their Main Ecological Functions 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
David K. Rowe Stephanie Parkyn John Quinn Kevin Collier Chris Hatton Michael K. Joy John Maxted Stephen Moore 《Environmental management》2009,43(6):1287-1300
A method was developed to score the ecological condition of first- to third-order stream reaches in the Auckland region of
New Zealand based on the performance of their key ecological functions. Such a method is required by consultants and resource
managers to quantify the reduction in ecological condition of a modified stream reach relative to its unmodified state. This
is a fundamental precursor for the determination of fair environmental compensation for achieving no-net-loss in overall stream
ecological value. Field testing and subsequent use of the method indicated that it provides a useful measure of ecological
condition related to the performance of stream ecological functions. It is relatively simple to apply compared to a full ecological
study, is quick to use, and allows identification of the degree of impairment of each of the key ecological functions. The
scoring system was designed so that future improvements in the measurement of stream functions can be incorporated into it.
Although the methodology was specifically designed for Auckland streams, the principles can be readily adapted to other regions
and stream types. 相似文献
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Tidal streams are ecologically important components of lotic network, and we identify dissolved oxygen (DO) depletion as a potentially important stressor in freshwater tidal streams of northern New Zealand. Other studies have examined temporal DO variability within rivers and we build on this by examining variability between streams as a basis for regional-scale predictors of risk for DO stress. Diel DO variability in these streams was driven by: (1) photosynthesis by aquatic plants and community respiration which produced DO maxima in the afternoon and minima early morning (range, 0.6-4.7 g/m(3)) as a product of the solar cycle and (2) tidal variability as a product of the lunar cycle, including saline intrusions with variable DO concentrations plus a small residual effect on freshwater DO for low-velocity streams. The lowest DO concentrations were observed during March (early autumn) when water temperatures and macrophyte biomass were high. Spatial comparisons indicated that low-gradient tidal streams were at greater risk of DO depletions harmful to aquatic life. Tidal influence was stronger in low-gradient streams, which typically drain more developed catchments, have lower reaeration potential and offer conditions more suitable for aquatic plant proliferation. Combined, these characteristics supported a simple method based on the extent of low-gradient channel for identifying coastal streams at risk of DO depletion. High-risk streams can then be targeted for riparian planting, nutrient limits and water allocation controls to reduce potential ecological stress. 相似文献
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Collier KJ 《Environmental monitoring and assessment》2009,157(1-4):113-124
Few attempts have been made to combine multimetric and multivariate analyses for bioassessment despite recognition that an integrated method could yield powerful tools for bioassessment. An approach is described that integrates eight macroinvertebrate community metrics into a Principal Components Analysis to develop a Multivariate Condition Score (MCS) from a calibration dataset of 511 samples. The MCS is compared to an Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) derived using the same metrics based on the ratio to the reference site mean. Both approaches were highly correlated although the MCS appeared to offer greater potential for discriminating a wider range of impaired conditions. Both the MCS and IBI displayed low temporal variability within reference sites, and were able to distinguish between reference conditions and low levels of catchment modification and local habitat degradation, although neither discriminated among three levels of low impact. Pseudosamples developed to test the response of the metric aggregation approaches to organic enrichment, urban, mining, pastoral and logging stressor scenarios ranked pressures in the same order, but the MCS provided a lower score for the urban scenario and a higher score for the pastoral scenario. The MCS was calculated for an independent test dataset of urban and reference sites, and yielded similar results to the IBI. Although both methods performed comparably, the MCS approach may have some advantages because it removes the subjectivity of assigning thresholds for scoring biological condition, and it appears to discriminate a wider range of degraded conditions. 相似文献
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Johnson LL Ylitalo GM Arkoosh MR Kagley AN Stafford C Bolton JL Buzitis J Anulacion BF Collier TK 《Environmental monitoring and assessment》2007,124(1-3):167-194
To better understand the dynamics of contaminant uptake in outmigrant juvenile salmon in the Pacific Northwest, concentrations
of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), DDTs, polycylic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and organochlorine pesticides were measured
in tissues and prey of juvenile chinook and coho salmon from several estuaries and hatcheries in the US Pacific Northwest.
PCBs, DDTs, and PAHs were found in tissues (whole bodies or bile) and stomach contents of chinook and coho salmon sampled
from all estuaries, as well as in chinook salmon from hatcheries. Organochlorine pesticides were detected less frequently.
Of the two species sampled, chinook salmon had the highest whole body contaminant concentrations, typically 2--5 times higher
than coho salmon from the same sites. In comparison to estuarine chinook salmon, body burdens of PCBs and DDTs in hatchery
chinook were relatively high, in part because of the high lipid content of the hatchery fish. Concentrations of PCBs were
highest in chinook salmon from the Duwamish Estuary, the Columbia River and Yaquina Bay, exceeding the NOAA Fisheries' estimated
threshold for adverse health effects of 2400 ng/g lipid. Concentrations of DDTs were especially high in juvenile chinook salmon
from the Columbia River and Nisqually Estuary; concentrations of PAH metabolites in bile were highest in chinook salmon from
the Duwamish Estuary and Grays Harbor. Juvenile chinook salmon are likely absorbing some contaminants during estuarine residence
through their prey, as PCBs, PAHs, and DDTs were consistently present in stomach contents, at concentrations significantly
correlated with contaminant body burdens in fish from the same sites. 相似文献
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Patricia Prado Catherine J. Collier Javier Romero Teresa Alcoverro 《Marine Biology》2011,158(7):1473-1482
Herbivory is now recognized as an important structuring agent in seagrass meadows but the attack pattern and tissue damage
of consumers are highly variable. Nutritional preferences of herbivores and/or easy access to resources may cause differences
in biomass loss among tissues that damage the plant in functionally distinctive ways. The two main Mediterranean herbivores,
the fish Sarpa salpa (L.) and the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus (Lmk.), remove higher amounts of intermediate and external shoot leaves, respectively. To test whether this selective feeding
can have different consequences on the allocation patterns of nutrient within plants, we simulated the effect of both herbivores
by clipping external and intermediate leaves (plus unclipped controls) of Posidonia oceanica (L.) and we measured plant tolerance in terms of shoot growth and leaf nutrient supply to new tissue using isotopic markers.
As expected, control treatments displayed high carbon and nutrient supply from external leaves (83% of the total 15N and 84% of the total 13C incorporated by the shoot). When subjected to clipping, the remaining leaves enhanced carbon and nitrogen supply compared
with the control by 16% of N and 36% of C—in the intermediate clipping—and by over 100% of N and 200% of C—in the external
clipping—to compensate for the nutrient lost. However, only in the case of fish herbivory (intermediate clipping), enhanced
supply alone was able to fully compensate for the nutrient losses. In contrast, this mechanism is not completely effective
when external leaves are clipped (urchin herbivory). Yet, the consequences of this nutrient loss under sea urchin herbivory
are not apparent from the nutrient content of the new tissue, suggesting that there are other sources of nitrogen income (uptake
or reallocation from rhizomes). Our study does not only confirm the tolerance of P. oceanica to herbivory, but also constitutes the first evidence of leaf-specific, compensatory nutrient supply in seagrasses. 相似文献