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Impacts of a novel controlled-release TiO2-coated (nano-) formulation of carbendazim and its constituents on freshwater macroinvertebrate communities.
Nederstigt, Tom A P; Peijnenburg, Willie J G M; Schrama, Maarten; van Ommen, J Ruud; Vijver, Martina G.
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  • Nederstigt TAP; Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Leiden, Leiden, the Netherlands. Electronic address: t.a.p.nederstigt@cml.leidenuniv.nl.
  • Peijnenburg WJGM; Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Leiden, Leiden, the Netherlands; National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands.
  • Schrama M; Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Leiden, Leiden, the Netherlands.
  • van Ommen JR; Department of Chemical Engineering, TU Delft Process & Product Technology Institute, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands.
  • Vijver MG; Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Leiden, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Sci Total Environ ; 838(Pt 4): 156554, 2022 Sep 10.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35691359
Recently, the delivery of pesticides through novel controlled-release (nano-)formulations has been proposed intending to reduce (incidental) pesticide translocation to non-target sites. Concerns have however been raised with regards to the potentially enhanced toxicity of controlled-release (nano-)formulations to non-target organisms and ecosystems. We evaluated long-term (i.e. 1 and 3 month-) impacts of a novel controlled-release pesticide formulation (nano-TiO2-coated carbendazim) and its individual and combined constituents (i.e. nano-sized TiO2 and carbendazim) on naturally established freshwater macroinvertebrate communities. In doing so, we simultaneously assessed impacts of nano-sized TiO2 (nTiO2), currently one of the most used and emitted engineered nanomaterials world-wide. We determined ecological impacts on diversity (i.e. ß-diversity), structure (i.e. rank abundance parameters), and functional composition (i.e. feeding guilds & trophic groups) of communities and underlying effects at lower organizational levels (i.e. population dynamics of individual taxa). Freshwater macroinvertebrate communities were negligibly impacted by nTiO2 at environmentally realistic concentrations. The controlled-release (nano-)formulation significantly delayed release of carbendazim to the water column. Nevertheless, conventional- (i.e. un-coated-) and nTiO2-coated carbendazim induced a similar set of adverse impacts at all investigated levels of ecological organization and time points. Our findings show fundamental restructuring of the taxonomic- and functional composition of macroinvertebrate communities as a result of low-level pesticide exposure, and thereby highlight the need for mitigating measures to reduce pesticide-induced stress on freshwater ecosystems.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Plaguicidas / Contaminantes Químicos del Agua Idioma: En Revista: Sci Total Environ Año: 2022 Tipo del documento: Article Pais de publicación: Países Bajos
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Plaguicidas / Contaminantes Químicos del Agua Idioma: En Revista: Sci Total Environ Año: 2022 Tipo del documento: Article Pais de publicación: Países Bajos