St Lucia, the largest estuarine lake complex of its type in Africa, is characterised by natural
physico-chemical spatial and temporal fluctuations. This estuary functions as an important …

The occurrence of microplastics in the aquatic environment has been reported around the
world; however, their effects on freshwater oligochaetes are unknown. In this research, we …

Aquatic environments in urban centers suffer constantly from changes in limnological
variables, mainly due to increased pollution in these systems. Aquatic Oligochaeta are …

Marginal lakes are characterised by their having high biological diversity due to the
presence of aquatic macrophytes in their coastal zones, providing habitats for refuge and …

Oligochaeta are suitable for assessing the effects of contaminants on the environment, but in
Brazil, few studies have been developed for the use of native species in toxicity bioassays …

Ecotoxicological bioassays have been widely applied to evaluate the toxicity of substances
in standardized test organisms. Nevertheless, the main challenge for researchers is the use …

Antibiotics from sulfonamide, fluoroquinolone, and diaminopyrimidine classes are widely
used in human and veterinary medicine, and their combined occurrence in the aquatic …

Freshwater sponges serve as a favorable substratum for a number of metazoans, such as
insects, crustaceans, annelids, nematodes and mollusks. The aim of this paper was to verify …

Oligochaeta is one of the most common and abundant taxon in continental aquatic fauna.
However, knowledge of their distribution in Brazilian ecosystems is still incomplete and …

This work sought the survey of species and information about the distribution of the Class
Oligochaeta in reservoirs sampled in the Sediment Quality Monitoring Network of CETESB …