The World Health Organization reported that air pollution in 2012 caused the death of about 7 million people worldwide (WHO, 2014), confirming as one principal environmental health risks world, and indicating its reduction an urgent mission to save millions lives [...]

this study is an attempt to evaluate the biomonitoring capabilities of rock oyster, saccostrea cucullata, for mercury (hg) pollution. the oyster and sediment samples were collected from 10 rocky habitats of qeshm and hormoz islands in the persian gulf. the concentration of mercury in the shell and soft tissues of the oysters and sediments were analyzed using an advanced mercury analyzer. biota-...

Soils are three-dimensional (3D) natural bodies conSlStmg of unconsolidated mineral and organic materials that form a continuous blanket over most of the earth's land sUlface. At all scales of measurements, soils are exceedingly complex and variable in bio logical, chemical, physical, mineralogical, and electromagnetic properties. These properties influence the propaga tion velocity, attenuatio...

The EU COST Action DNAqua-Net has since its start in 2016 gathered European researchers with the quest to standardize and implement DNA-based aquatic biomonitoring. On March 9–11, 2021, their work culminated first conference. Here, an astounding 1500 participants from around world virtually share research on biomonitoring encompassing DNA reference databases, field laboratory protocols, data an...

Estimation of population exposure and biological impact of potential hazards are central reasons for performing biomonitoring. The sensitivity of the biomonitoring methods and the linkage of the measured phenomenon to human disease are also important, but often overlooked, considerations. We are conducting experiments to evaluate the sensitivity of hprt mutation measurement in the nonhuman prim...

IV. CHARACTERIZATION OF CHOLINESTERASE ACTIVITY IN GREEN MUSSEL (Perna viridis) AS A POTENTIAL BIOMARKER IN MARINE BIOMONITORING 4.1. Abstract Green mussels (Perna viridis) play an important economic and ecological role in the coastal areas of Indonesia. P. viridis has been used as an eco-sentinel organism for marine biomonitoring programme in Asia regions. To magnify its competency as a releva...

Diatoms include a great diversity of taxa and are recognized as powerful bioindicators in rivers. However using diatoms for monitoring programs is costly and time consuming because most of the methodologies necessitate species-level identification. This raises the question of the optimal trade-off between taxonomic resolution and bioassessment quality. Phylogenetic tools may form the bases of n...

Raptors are good sentinels of environmental contamination and there is good capability for raptor biomonitoring in Europe. Raptor biomonitoring can benefit from natural history museums (NHMs), environmental specimen banks (ESBs) and other collections (e.g. specialist raptor specimen collections). Europe's NHMs, ESBs and other collections hold large numbers of raptor specimens and samples, cover...

Soldiers in operational environments are exposed to a variety of chemical substances. During deployment, they often move very rapidly from one “environment” to the other. Therefore ambient monitoring is very difficult and its outcome very complex to assess. Just as occupational and environmental assessments are becoming more common in industry, biomonitoring of chemical substances and their met...

In her Postulate of 20 March 2008, National Councillor Moser (Green Liberal, Canton Zurich) requested the Federal Council to consider the introduction of systematic analysis of various groups of chemicals (pesticides, PCBs, UV filters, etc.) to which the Swiss population is exposed. In its response of 6 June 2008, the Federal Council stated that it was prepared to investigate how existing resea...