The relevance of European Biota Quality Standards on the ecological water quality as determined by the multimetric macro-invertebrate index: A Flemish case study

European Biota Quality Standards (EQSbiota), for compounds with low water solubility and high biomagnification, were created to sustain water quality and protect top predators and humans from secondary poisoning. In reality, for multiple compounds, an exceedance of these standards is often reported in literature without a decrease in ecological water quality determined by biotic indices. In the present study, threshold concentrations were defined in biota (from 44 sampling locations throughout Flanders (Belgium)), above which a good ecological water quality, assessed by the Multimetric Macroin... Mehr ...

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Maarten De Jonge
Govindan Malarvannan
Adrian Covaci
Claude Belpaire
Jean-François Focant
Ronny Blust
Lieven Bervoets
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
Reihe/Periodikum: Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Vol 231, Iss , Pp 113222- (2022)
Verlag/Hrsg.: Elsevier
Schlagwörter: POPs / Mercury / Biomonitoring / Fish / Bivalves / Environmental pollution / TD172-193.5 / Environmental sciences / GE1-350
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26699705
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Link(s) : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2022.113222