Article
Fisheries
Jaykumar Kiritkumar Patel, Ada Zwetlana, Dipannita Ghosh, Vineeth Rajan, Gopalan Krishnan Sivaraman, Perumal Vivekanandan, Ravikrishnan Elangovan
Summary: Aquaculture is a rapidly growing agricultural sector that provides a valuable source of animal protein. However, the presence of pathogenic microbes and antimicrobial resistance in aquaculture is a major concern. This study sequenced and analyzed the genomes of Staphylococcus spp. isolates from shrimps obtained from aquaculture farms in India, and found that most of the isolates had a close identity with human isolates, indicating a human origin of these pathogens. It highlights the importance of implementing biosecurity measures in aquaculture farms to prevent the entry and enrichment of such isolates.
Editorial Material
Fisheries
Felipe C. Cabello, Henry P. Godfrey
Summary: Dr. Avendano-Herrera's comments on our review are mostly marginal and do not weaken our hypothesis. We believe that infections caused by P. salmonis can be prevented by improving husbandry practices, and that excessive use of antimicrobials is detrimental to health.
Review
Environmental Sciences
Ashish Sengar, Arya Vijayanandan
Summary: The study conducted a screening-level risk assessment of 98 PPCPs detected in different water matrices of India, evaluating ecological risk, human health risk, and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) selection risk. It found that a significant proportion of the detected PPCPs posed potential risks to aquatic species and human health in Indian waters. Special attention is needed for pharmaceutical hubs where environmental waters were severely contaminated with drug residues.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Minashree Kumari, Arun Kumar
Summary: This study assessed the ecological and human health risks exposure of COVID-19 pharmaceuticals in environmental waters, identifying algae as the most sensitive species to pharmaceutical drugs, with ritonavir posing a major risk. The maximum allowable concentration level for the mixture of pharmaceuticals was found to be 0.53 mg/L.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Aimee K. Murray, Isobel Stanton, William H. Gaze, Jason Snape
Summary: Antibiotics and antimicrobials are widely used, misused and overused in human and veterinary medicine, animal husbandry and aquaculture, potentially leading to the enrichment of antimicrobial resistant bacteria in the environment. There is a need to develop a new methodology for environmental risk assessment to ensure that diffuse and point source discharges are safe choices.
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Thunchanok Thongsamer, Rattikan Neamchan, Adrian Blackburn, Kishor Acharya, Sawannee Sutheeworapong, Bundit Tirachulee, Pavinee Pattanachan, Soydoa Vinitnantharat, Xin-Yuan Zhou, Jian-Qiang Su, Yong-Guan Zhu, David Graham, David Werner
Summary: The study found that aquaculture is not a major driver of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the environment in Central Thailand, with the highest prevalence of resistance traits observed in Hua Krabue canal water influenced by urban pollution from Bangkok.
JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
(2021)
Article
Fisheries
Andrew P. Desbois, Maria Garza, Mahmoud Eltholth, Yamen M. Hegazy, Ana Mateus, Alexandra Adams, David C. Little, Erling Hog, Chadag Vishnumurthy Mohan, Shimaa E. Ali, Lucy A. Brunton
Summary: This study applies participatory systems-thinking approach to Nile tilapia production in the Nile Delta of Egypt, identifying potential short-term interventions to effectively reduce antibiotic use, mainly focusing on improving culture water quality parameters, feed storage conditions, and training programs for stakeholders.
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Yang Zhou, Zhengyu Zhang, Jing Jing, Feifei Bao, Lanxin Wu, Yuhan Du, Hongyan Zhang
Summary: This study assessed the occurrence, distribution, ecological risk, and environmental carrying capacity of pesticides in agricultural soils of Northeast China. The findings highlight the importance of pesticide reduction and soil quality monitoring to prevent soil environmental degradation. The study provides a framework for pesticide soil environmental carrying capacity assessment and early warning system.
JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
(2023)
Article
Infectious Diseases
Maria Garza, Chadag Mohan, Lucy Brunton, Barbara Wieland, Barbara Hasler
Summary: This study aims to develop a typology to classify and characterize interventions to reduce antimicrobial use in aquaculture and identify points of action. The most common interventions to address antimicrobial use and resistance were legislative and regulatory frameworks and voluntary instruments. Specific interventions targeting antimicrobial use and resistance were scarce. The presented typology can guide evaluation of interventions that promote responsible antimicrobial use and inform the design of future interventions.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS
(2022)
Review
Fisheries
Vijaya Kumar Deekshit, Biswajit Maiti, Ballamoole Krishna Kumar, Akshatha Kotian, Gillaine Pinto, Melba G. Bondad-Reantaso, Iddya Karunasagar, Indrani Karunasagar
Summary: The discovery and use of antibiotics in various sectors, including aquaculture, has led to concerns about the indiscriminate use of antibiotics and the emergence of antimicrobial resistance. It is important to study the transmission and resistance mechanisms of fish pathogens in aquaculture settings.
REVIEWS IN AQUACULTURE
(2022)
Article
Fisheries
Ashley G. Bell, Kelly Thornber, Dominique L. Chaput, Neza A. Hasan, Md. Mehedi Alam, Mohammad Mahfujul Haque, Jo Cable, Ben Temperton, Charles R. Tyler
Summary: In Bangladesh, the increasing demand for fish products in aquaculture is resulting in higher disease prevalence, posing a risk to food security. Antibiotics are commonly used in rural aquaculture practices, leading to the development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The spread of AMR in aquatic ecosystems through mobile genetic elements is a threat to human health and fish production.
AQUACULTURE REPORTS
(2023)
Review
Fisheries
Andrew C. Barnes, Oleksandra Silayeva, Matt Landos, Ha Thanh Dong, Angela Lusiastuti, Le Hong Phuoc, Jerome Delamare-Deboutteville
Summary: Antimicrobial resistance is a global crisis, especially in aquaculture where antibiotics are often used without proper information and record-keeping. Vaccination with autogenous vaccines may be a cost-effective solution to reduce antibiotic use, particularly in low- and middle-income countries with limited veterinary support.
REVIEWS IN AQUACULTURE
(2022)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Javier Feito, Carlos Araujo, Beatriz Gomez-Sala, Diogo Contente, Cristina Campanero, Sara Arbulu, Claudia Saralegui, Nuria Pena, Estefania Munoz-Atienza, Juan Borrero, Rosa del Campo, Pablo E. Hernandaz, Luis M. Cintas
Summary: The study characterized a population of 53 L. garvieae isolates from healthy cultured rainbow trout and their rearing environment. The results revealed that these isolates exhibited antimicrobial activity against Gram-negative ichthyopathogens and carried multiple putative virulence factors. Additionally, the isolates showed resistance to certain antibiotics, highlighting the need to reevaluate treatment options for human patients.
LWT-FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering
Zhen-xing Wang, Yun-jun Yu, Tian-tian Ye, Jiang-chi Fei, Xin-yu Song, Jian-wei Peng, Yao-yu Zhou, Hong-hua Wu
Summary: This study analyzed the distribution and quantification of elements in the Southwest China Keda mining site and found that the area is highly contaminated, posing potential risks to human health and the environment. The study also identified the main factors contributing to health and ecological risks, providing valuable insights for future environmental management.
TRANSACTIONS OF NONFERROUS METALS SOCIETY OF CHINA
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Joao Pedro Rueda Furlan, Rafael da Silva Rosa, Micaela Santana Ramos, Lucas David Rodrigues dos Santos, Ralf Lopes, Eduardo Angelino Savazzi, Eliana Guedes Stehling
Summary: International high-risk clones of Klebsiella pneumoniae are spreading to the environment. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increased frequency of carbapenemase-producing strains, which can contaminate the environment. KPC-producing strains were found in aquatic ecosystems in commercial, industrial, and agricultural areas, and were resistant to multiple antibiotics. Plasmids carrying the bla(KPC-2) gene were detected, along with uncommon plasmids displaying inter-species, intra-species, and clonal transmission. These findings highlight the spread of high-risk clones and the potential for rapid dispersion in a post-pandemic world.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Review
Biodiversity Conservation
Francesco Polazzo, Sabrina K. Roth, Markus Hermann, Annika Mangold-Doring, Andreu Rico, Anna Sobek, Paul J. van den Brink, Michelle C. Jackson
Summary: Freshwater ecosystems are significantly affected by heatwaves and chemicals, yet limited research makes it difficult to draw consistent conclusions. There is a knowledge gap in utilizing multitrophic approaches, hindering the exploration of food web stability. The urgency of integrating extreme events into multiple stressors studies is emphasized.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Dimitri Van de Perre, Dan Li, Kai-Sheng Yao, Hao-Jun Lei, Paul J. Van den Brink, Guang-Guo Ying
Summary: The study evaluated the impact of Cyclophosphamide (CP) on a sub-tropical freshwater ecosystem, showing treatment-related effects on different organisms at varying concentrations of CP, indicating a potential environmental risk at relevant concentrations.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Andreu Rico, Rhaul de Oliveira, Gabriel Silva de Souza Nunes, Cristiana Rizzi, Sara Villa, Beatriz De Caroli Vizioli, Cassiana C. Montagner, Andrea Viviana Waichman
Summary: The use of pesticides has increased notably in households and peri-urban areas of the Amazon, but the presence of these contaminants and their ecological risks in freshwater ecosystems remain unexplored. This study assessed the exposure to pesticides in the Amazon River and urban streams, finding widespread pesticide contamination in urban and peri-urban areas of the Brazilian Amazon. Pesticide residues may pose risks to freshwater organisms, particularly invertebrates.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Kai-Sheng Yao, Ya-Jing He, Paul J. Van den Brink, Yu-Nv Dai, Yang Yang, Yong-De Cui
Summary: Urban estuaries are severely altered systems that undergo ecological crises and result in irreversible loss of biodiversity. This study investigates the variations of benthic macroinvertebrate communities and biotic indices in a highly urbanized fluvial-estuarine system and examines their responses to environmental alterations. Water parameters have a greater impact on the benthic community composition and diversity than sediment parameters, indicating that anthropogenic activities directly alter the ecological quality of urban fluvial sections.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Francesco Polazzo, Tomas I. Marina, Melina Crettaz-Minaglia, Andreu Rico
Summary: The recovery time of ecological communities after disturbances differs, with multivariate composition taking longer to recover. This study used network analysis to find that changes in interaction strength are closely related to compositional changes, and rewiring of postdisturbance interaction strength is the main cause of observed compositional changes. Pesticide interactions are significant in the long term only when both interaction strength and food-web architecture are reshaped by disturbances.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Pamela Rueda-Cediel, Nika Galic, Richard Brain, Jesus N. Pinto-Ledezma, Andreu Rico, Valery Forbes
Summary: Developing population models for assessing risks to threatened or endangered plant species is challenging due to limited data on their life histories. This study developed a novel approach to identify data-rich nonlisted species as representatives for species listed under the ESA in population model development. The results showed that listed species are widely distributed across the plant phylogeny and do not share common vulnerability characteristics. Lifespan and age at maturity are important factors for distinguishing species clusters.
INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Francesco Polazzo, Markus Hermann, Melina Crettaz-Minaglia, Andreu Rico
Summary: Untangling the relationship between network complexity and ecological stability under climate change, particularly extreme climatic events, is a challenging task. This study explores the effects of extreme heatwaves on the complexity of freshwater ecosystems and its correlation with stability components of the community. The findings suggest that reduction in network complexity leads to decreased functional and compositional resistance, while increased link-weighted network complexity improves functional and energy flux recovery and resilience but increases compositional instability.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Anna Huang, Annika Mangold-Doring, Huitong Guan, Marie-Claire Boerwinkel, Dick Belgers, Andreas Focks, Paul J. Van den Brink
Summary: A comprehensive understanding of the interaction between chemical toxicity and temperature is crucial for improving ecological risk assessment under climate change. This study investigated the toxicokinetics and chronic toxicity effects of two insecticides on Gammarus pulex at different temperatures. The results showed that temperature influenced the toxicokinetics and chronic toxicity of both insecticides, with varying degrees of impact. The adverse effects on sublethal endpoints were exacerbated by higher temperatures.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Berhan M. Teklu, Sevil Deniz Yakan, Paul J. Van den Brink
Summary: In this study, the PRIMET Registration_Ethiopia_1.1 model was evaluated to assess the risks of pesticide registration in Ethiopia. The study found that certain active ingredients pose high risks to fish, aquatic invertebrates, soil ecosystem, birds, bees, and humans or other vertebrates if surface water is used as a source of drinking water. Future studies should focus on implementing the risk assessment results to aid the registration process.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Markus Hermann, Edwin T. H. M. Peeters, Paul J. Van den Brink
Summary: The impacts of climate change, such as elevated temperatures and severe weather extremes, are becoming evident on global nature. However, the interaction between stressors like pesticides and warming is not well understood, leading to unpredictable effects on freshwater ecosystems. This study conducted a microcosm experiment to investigate the effects of a fungicide and temperature scenarios on various components of the ecosystem, revealing complex interactions and highlighting the increased pesticide threat under temperature extremes.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Lara M. Schuijt, Oluwafemi Olusoiji, Asmita Dubey, Pablo Rodriguez-Sanchez, Rima Osman, Paul J. Van den Brink, Sanne J. P. van den Berg
Summary: Fluoxetine, one of the most prescribed antidepressants in the world, is frequently found in surface waters and can disrupt the swimming behavior of fish and invertebrates. However, swimming behavior is highly variable according to experimental conditions, potentially obscuring relevant effects. This study aimed to investigate the swimming and feeding behavior of Gammarus pulex after exposure to fluoxetine and to assess the impact of test duration and location on their swimming behavior.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Qinghua Zhao, Paul J. Van den Brink, Chi Xu, Shaopeng Wang, Adam T. Clark, Canan Karakoc, George Sugihara, Claire E. Widdicombe, Angus Atkinson, Shin-ichiro S. Matsuzaki, Ryuichiro Shinohara, Shuiqing He, Yingying. X. G. Wang, Frederik De Laender
Summary: Temperature and biodiversity changes can affect the ecological stability of natural food webs, but their joint effects are unclear. This study assessed these effects in 19 planktonic food webs and found that warmer temperatures were associated with lower stability, while biodiversity had inconsistent effects. The responses of stability were linked to the contributions from different trophic groups and the synchrony of species within the food web.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Edna Cabecinha, Miguel A. Pardal, Joao A. Cabral, Sandra M. Monteiro, Rui Cortes, Maria J. Saavedra, Simone Varandas, Paul van den Brink
Summary: This study investigates a new approach for monitoring and assessing water quality in Mediterranean reservoirs using phytoplankton communities. The results indicate that some reservoirs have been significantly affected by organic pollution and mineral gradients, leading to an imbalance in water quality. Additionally, assessing phytoplankton communities can provide insights into the overall health of the ecosystem.
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Markus Hermann, Richard Jansen, Johan van de Glind, Edwin T. H. M. Peeters, Paul J. van den Brink
Summary: Future global climate change will have unpredictable impacts on aquatic ecosystems, with increased risk of species extinction according to models. In addition to environmental changes, anthropogenic stressors such as chemical release may lead to unprecedented interaction effects on ecosystems. Current research mostly focuses on understanding temperature-chemical interaction effects using constant temperature regimes, neglecting environmentally realistic daily temperature variations.