Artículo

La versión final de este artículo es de uso interno de la institución.
Consulte el artículo en la página del editor
Consulte la política de Acceso Abierto del editor

Abstract:

Water and sediment samples were collected in the lower Paraná delta at four sites with different levels of exposure to pollution to evaluate the anthropogenic impact through chemical analyses and mortality bioassays. Individual polychlorinated biphenyls, chlorinated pesticides, aliphatic hydrocarbons, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and heavy metals were measured in waters, porewaters and sediments. The same three phases were also subjected to toxicity assays with straight-hinged juveniles of Corbicula fluminea. Concentrations of several pollutants were above levels recommended for the protection of aquatic life: in waters, Zn, Cu and Cr were 1.6-4.9 times higher, whereas in the sediments Cr was 1.8-3.6, and benzo(a)pyrene was 2.8-5.6 times higher. Pollutant concentrations followed a clear geographic pattern with highest values in the densely populated area of the Reconquista and Luján rivers, lower levels in the San Antonio, and lowest loadings in the remote Paraná de las Palmas. This gradient was adequately matched by the pattern of mortality rates of C. fluminea early juveniles, which were highest in the Reconquista-Luján (40-93%) and lowest (and not significantly different from the control) in the Paraná (3.3-23%). Mortality rates also increased from surface waters (3.3-53%), to porewaters (12-73%), to sediments (23-93%). Although toxicity was probably mainly due to dissolved contaminants, agreement between chemical and biological evidence of pollution was best for the sediment compartment, whereas porewater and surface water showed a higher degree of variability. Copyright © 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd.

Registro:

Documento: Artículo
Título:Environmental toxicity assessment in the Paraná river delta (Argentina): simultaneous evaluation of selected pollutants and mortality rates of Corbicula fluminea (Bivalvia) early juveniles
Autor:Cataldo, D.; Colombo, J.C.; Boltovskoy, D.; Bilos, C.; Landoni, P.
Filiación:Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales bernardino Rivadavia, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Laboratorio de Química Ambiental y Biogeoquímica, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Paseo Del Bosque S/n, 1900 La Plata, Argentina
Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aries, Argentina
Palabras clave:Contaminants; Corbicula fluminea; Molluscs; Paraná river; Toxicity; 1,1 dichloro 2,2 bis(4 chlorophenyl)ethylene; chlordane; chlorphenotane; fresh water; heavy metal; heptachlor; industrial effluent; lindane; organic matter; pesticide; polychlorinated biphenyl; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon; surface water; trace metal; mortality; pollutant; pollution exposure; toxicity; animal experiment; article; chemical analysis; measurement; mollusc; mortality; nonhuman; river; sediment; standard; water contamination; water pollution; Animals; Argentina; Bivalvia; Fresh Water; Geologic Sediments; Hydrocarbons; Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated; Metals, Heavy; Pesticides; Soil Pollutants; Water Pollutants, Chemical; Argentina; Bivalvia; Corbicula fluminea; Mollusca
Año:2001
Volumen:112
Número:3
Página de inicio:379
Página de fin:389
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0269-7491(00)00145-7
Título revista:Environmental Pollution
Título revista abreviado:Environ. Pollut.
ISSN:02697491
CODEN:ENPOE
CAS:Hydrocarbons; Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated; Metals, Heavy; Pesticides; Soil Pollutants; Water Pollutants, Chemical
Registro:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_02697491_v112_n3_p379_Cataldo

Referencias:

  • Battelle, J., 1986. Sediment quality criteria methodology validation: calculation of screening level concentrations from field data. Final report. US Environmental Protection Agency, Criteria and Standards Division, Washington, DC; Belanger, S.E., The effect of dissolved oxygen, sediment, and sewage treatment plant discharges upon growth, survival and density of Asiatic clams (1991) Hydrobiologia, 218, pp. 113-126
  • Bilos, C., Colombo, J.C., Rodríguez Presa, M.J., Trace metals in suspended particles, sediments and Asiatic clams (Corbicula fluminea) of the Río de la Plata estuary, Argentina (1998) Environmental Pollution, 99, pp. 1-11
  • Boltovskoy, D., Izaguirre, I., Correa, N., Feeding selectivity of Corbicula fluminea (Bivalvia) on natural phytoplankton (1995) Hydrobiologia, 312, pp. 171-182
  • Boltovskoy, D., Correa, N., Cataldo, D., Stripeikis, J., Tudino, M., Environmental stress on Corbicula fluminea (Bivalvia) in the Paraná river delta (Argentina): complex pollution-related disruption of population structures (1997) Archiv für Hydrobiologe, 138, pp. 483-507
  • Burton, G.A., Scott, K.J., Sediment toxicity evaluations. Their niche in ecological assessments (1992) Environmental Science and Technology, 26, pp. 2068-2075
  • Cataldo, D.H., Boltovskoy, D., Population dynamics of Corbicula fluminea (Bivalvia) in the Paraná river delta (Argentina) (1998) Hydrobiologia, 380, pp. 153-163
  • Chengelis, C.P., Dood, D.C., Means, M., Kotsonis, F.N., Protection by zinc against acetaminophen induced hepatotoxicity in mice (1986) Fundamental and Applied Toxicology, 6, pp. 278-284
  • Clarke, J.H., Clarke, A.N., Wilson, D.J., Friauf, J.J., 1977. On the use of Corbicula fluminea as indicators of heavy metal contamination. In: Britton, J. (Ed.), Proceedings of the First International Corbicula Symposium, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, October, 1977, pp. 249-287; Colombo, J.C., Pelletier, E., Brochu, C., Khalil, M., Catoggio, J.A., Determination of hydrocarbons sources using n-alkane and polyaromatic hydrocarbon distribution indexes. Case study: Río de la Plata Estuary, Argentina (1989) Environmental Science and Technology, 23, pp. 888-894
  • Colombo, J.C., Khalil, M.F., Arnac, M., Horth, A.C., Catoggio, J.A., Distribution of chlorinated pesticides and individual polychlorinated biphenyls in biotic and abiotic compartments of the Río de la Plata, Argentina (1990) Environmental Science and Technology, 24, pp. 498-505
  • Colombo, J.C., Bilos, C., Campanaro, M., Rodriguez Presa, M.J., Catoggio, J.A., Bioaccumulation of polychlorinated biphenyls and chlorinated pesticides by the Asiatic clam Corbicula fluminea: its use as sentinel organism in the Río de la Plata estuary, Argentina (1995) Environmental Science and Technology, 29, pp. 914-927
  • Colombo, J.C., Brochu, C., Bilos, C., Landoni, P., Moore, S., Long term accumulation of individual PCBs, dioxins, furans, and trace metals in Asiatic clams from the Río de la Plata Estuary, Argentina (1997) Environmental Science and Technology, 31, pp. 3551-3557
  • Doherty, F.G., The Asiatic clam, Corbicula spp., as a biological monitor in freshwater environments (1990) Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 15, pp. 143-181
  • Doherty, F.G., Cherry, D.S., Tolerance of the Asiatic clam, Corbicula sp. to lethal levels of toxic stressors - a review (1988) Environmental Pollution, 51, pp. 236-311
  • Ferm, V.H., Carpenter, S.J., Teratogenic effects of cadmium and its inhibition by zinc (1967) Nature, 216, p. 1123
  • Foe, C., Knight, A., 1986. A method for evaluating the sublethal impact of stress employing Corbicula fluminea. American Malacological Bulletin, Special Edition 2, 133-142; Foster, R.B., 1981. Use Asiatic clam larvae in aquatic hazard evaluations. In: Bates, J.M., Weber, C.L. (Eds.), Ecological assessments of effluent impacts on communities of indigenous aquatic organisms (ASTM STP 730). American Society of Testing and Materials, pp. 280-288; Golterman, H.L., Methods for Chemical Analysis of Fresh Waters (IBP Handbook 8) (1969), Oxford: Blackwell; Ituarte, C.F., Corbicula and neocorbicula (Bivalvia: Corbiculidae) in the Paraná, Uruguay, and Río de la Plata Basins (1994) Nautilus, 107, pp. 129-135
  • Janiot, L.J., Sericano, J.L., Roses, O.E., Chlorinated pesticide occurrence in the Uruguay river (Argentina - Uruguay) (1994) Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 76, pp. 323-331
  • Kimbrough, D.E., Wakakuwa, J., A study of the linear ranges of several acid digestion procedures (1992) Environmental Science and Technology, 26, pp. 173-178
  • Kraemer, I.R., Galloway, M.L., Larval development of Corbicula fluminea (Muller) (Bivalvia: Corbiculolacea): an appraisal of its heterochrony (1986) American Malacological Bulletin, 4, pp. 61-79
  • Loez, C.R., Salibian, A., Premières données sur le phytoplancton et les caractéristiques physico-chimiques du Río Reconquista (Buenos Aires, Argentine). Une rivière urbaine polluée (1990) Revue d'Hydrobiologie Tropicale, 23, pp. 283-296
  • Long, E.R., Buchman, M.F., Bay, S.M., Breteler, R.J., Carr, R.S., Chapman, P.M., Hose, J.E., Wolfe, D.A., Comparative evaluation of five toxicity tests with sediments from San Francisco Bay and Tomales Bay, California (1990) Environmental Toxicological Chemistry, 9, pp. 1193-1214
  • Marking, L.L., Mauck, W.L., Toxicity of paired mixtures of candidate forest insecticides to rainbow trout (1975) Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 13, pp. 518-523
  • Phelps, H.L., Sediment toxicity of the Anacostia river estuary, Washinton, DC (1993) Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 51, pp. 582-587
  • Phelps, H.L., Warner, K.A., Estuarine sediment bioassay with oyster pediveliger larvae (Crassostrea gigas) (1990) Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 44, pp. 197-204
  • Reynoldson, T.B., A field test of a sediment bioassay with the oligochaete worm Tubifex tubifex (Muller, 1774) (1994) Hydrobiologia, 278, pp. 223-230
  • Schubauer-Berigan, M.K., Dierkes, J.R., Monson, P.D., Dierkes, G.T., pH dependent toxicity of Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb, and Zn to Ceriodaphnia dubia, Pimephales promelas, Hyalella azteca and Lumriculus variegatus (1993) Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 12, pp. 1261-1266
  • Simonin, H.A., Skea, J.C., Toxicity of diaquat and cutrine to fingerling brown trout (1977) New York Fish and Game Journal, 24, pp. 37-45
  • Topalian, M.L., Loez, C.R., Salibian, A., Metales pesados en el río Reconquista (Buenos Aires) resultados preliminares (1990) Acta Bioquímica et Clínica Latinoamericana, 24, pp. 171-176
  • Verrengia Guerrero, N.R., Kesten, E.M., Levels of heavy metals in biota from the La Plata River (1993) Environmental Toxicology and Water Quality, 8, pp. 335-344
  • Verrengia Guerrero, N.R., Kesten, E.M., Levels of heavy metals in waters from the La Plata River, Argentina: an approach to assess biovailability (1994) Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 52, pp. 254-260
  • Villar, C., Tudino, M., Bonetto, C., de Cabo, L., Stripeikis, J., d'Huicque, L., Tróccoli, O., Heavy metal concentrations in the Lower Paraná River and right margin of the Río de la Plata Estuary (1998) Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie, Verhandlungen, 26, pp. 963-966
  • Wade, 1992. Definitive evaluation of Wheeler reservoir sediments toxicity using juvenile frechwater mussels (Anodonta imbecillis Say). Tennessee Vallery Authority Water Resources Division, TVA/WR- 92/25; Walkes, M.P., Coogan, T.P., Barter, R.A., Toxicological principles of metal carcinogenesis with special emphasis on cadmium (1992) Critical Reviews in Toxicology, 22, pp. 175-201
  • (1991), Weber C.I. (Ed.), Methods for Measuring the Acute Toxicity of Effluents and Receiving Waters to Freshwater and Marine Organisms, Cincinnati: Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory, ORD, US Environmental Protection Agency, EPA-600/4-90-027,-284., 1; Weinstein, N.L., Anderson, P.D., 1978. Lethal and sub-lethal toxicities of cooper-nickel mixtures to the zebrafish (Brachydanio rerio). Fisheries Marine Service of Canada, Technical Report 818; Winer, B.J., Statistical Principles in Experimental Design (1971), New York: McGraw Hill

Citas:

---------- APA ----------
Cataldo, D., Colombo, J.C., Boltovskoy, D., Bilos, C. & Landoni, P. (2001) . Environmental toxicity assessment in the Paraná river delta (Argentina): simultaneous evaluation of selected pollutants and mortality rates of Corbicula fluminea (Bivalvia) early juveniles. Environmental Pollution, 112(3), 379-389.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0269-7491(00)00145-7
---------- CHICAGO ----------
Cataldo, D., Colombo, J.C., Boltovskoy, D., Bilos, C., Landoni, P. "Environmental toxicity assessment in the Paraná river delta (Argentina): simultaneous evaluation of selected pollutants and mortality rates of Corbicula fluminea (Bivalvia) early juveniles" . Environmental Pollution 112, no. 3 (2001) : 379-389.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0269-7491(00)00145-7
---------- MLA ----------
Cataldo, D., Colombo, J.C., Boltovskoy, D., Bilos, C., Landoni, P. "Environmental toxicity assessment in the Paraná river delta (Argentina): simultaneous evaluation of selected pollutants and mortality rates of Corbicula fluminea (Bivalvia) early juveniles" . Environmental Pollution, vol. 112, no. 3, 2001, pp. 379-389.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0269-7491(00)00145-7
---------- VANCOUVER ----------
Cataldo, D., Colombo, J.C., Boltovskoy, D., Bilos, C., Landoni, P. Environmental toxicity assessment in the Paraná river delta (Argentina): simultaneous evaluation of selected pollutants and mortality rates of Corbicula fluminea (Bivalvia) early juveniles. Environ. Pollut. 2001;112(3):379-389.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0269-7491(00)00145-7