With increasing concerns on the ecological risks of pollutants, many efforts have been
devoted to revealing the toxic effects of pollutants on algae or bacteria in their monocultures …

One of the major threats to freshwater biodiversity is water pollution including excessive
loads of nutrients, pesticides, industrial chemicals, and/or emerging contaminants. The …

Marine biofilm communities that developed on artificial substrata were investigated using
molecular and microscopic approaches. Polystyrene, Teflon® and four antifouling (AF) …

A major challenge in environmental risk assessment of pollutants is establishing a causal
relationship between field exposure and community effects that integrates both structural …

In the context of Climate Change, the increasing of frequency and intensity of droughts and
heat waves constitutes a serious threat for agroecosystems in the Mediterranean region …

Copper-based plant protection products (PPPs) are widely used in both conventional and
organic farming, and to a lesser extent for non-agricultural maintenance of gardens …

Benthic diatom communities are used widely as indicators of river health due to their rapid
response to changes in water quality. The ability for diatom-based indices to detect …

With the aim of evaluating cause-effect relationships between metal pollution and biofilm
structure and function, a translocation study was performed in a metal-polluted stream (the …

Fipronil is a broad-spectrum insecticide whose release in the environment damages many
non-target organisms. This study evaluated the toxicity of fipronil at two biological levels …

Copper (Cu) pollution in coastal areas is a worldwide threat for aquatic communities. This
study aims to demonstrate the usefulness of the DNA metabarcoding analysis in order to …