Global change assessments have typically ignored synthetic chemical pollution, despite the rapid increase of pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and industrial chemicals in environment. The paucity research on ecological effects these micropollutants undermines our efforts to address freshwater biodiversity crisis. Understanding responses individual organisms pollution should help this knowledge gap b...

Toxicity of compounds presented in sediment contaminated by powdered waste coal has been examined in a set of experiments. Reproduction parameters of amphipod Gammarus fossarum and prosobranchian snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum were affected after laboratory exposures to contaminated coal sediments from Karviná mining area, northeastern Czech Republic. The exposure to sediment extract has result...