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Aquatic Animals in Environmental Monitoring
Aquatic animals play a crucial role in environmental monitoring by serving as sensitive biological indicators of water quality and ecosystem health. Due to their close and continuous contact with aquatic environments, aquatic organisms can reflect the presence of pollutants, toxicants, and other ecological disturbances through changes in their physiology, behavior, and population dynamics. Biomonitoring using aquatic animals enables both long-term ecological assessments and real-time detection of pollution. Altogether, aquatic animals provide a cost-effective, integrative, and ecologically relevant approach to safeguarding water environments and supporting environmental risk assessments.
Fig. 1 General environmental fate and toxic mechanism of PAHs in aquatic ecosystem. (Honda M and Suzuki N. 2020)
Aquatic animals serve as essential bioindicators in environmental monitoring. They offer a sensitive and real-time method for detecting pollution risks in urban waters. Additionally, they play a crucial role in assessing ecological health by revealing changes in the integrity and functioning of these systems.
Urban Pollution Risk Assessment
During urbanization, large amounts of industrial wastewater and domestic sewage may carry heavy metals, organic pollutants, microplastics, pharmaceutical residues and other pollutions into the water, posing a threat to aquatic life in urban areas. Aquatic animals can serve as an early biological response system to pollution risks.
Ecosystem Health Assessment
Ensuring ecosystem stability and biodiversity is essential. Assessing ecological health involves examining the structure, function and resilience of ecosystems. Aquatic animals play a crucial role in these ecosystems and are important indicators for evaluating health levels.
Aquatic animal-based environmental monitoring is important in ecotoxicology and risk assessment. BioVenic offers a range of toxicity testing methods utilizing various aquatic species to systematically evaluate the toxicological effects of chemical compounds, including the following.
We utilize morphological analysis and behavioral monitoring methods to enable the assessment of potential ecological hazards of pollutants and behavioral characteristics of the effects of sudden pollution events.
These testing methods and diverse aquatic organisms provide a scientific basis for analyzing toxic mechanisms in environmental risk assessment. They also offer efficient solutions for real-time water pollution monitoring and enhance ecological security, supporting intelligent environmental management. BioVenic specializes in providing leading-edge assay technologies and research services to support advanced research and assist clients in conducting accurate and reliable environmental monitoring. Please contact us for more information.
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