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conference contribution
posted on 2024-03-15, 07:29authored byTamara S. Galloway, Josephine A. Hagger, David Lowe, D. R. Paul Leonard, Richard Owen, Malcolm B. Jones
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The European Commission’s Water Framework Directive (WFD) has emphasised the need for biological-effects end points that can be used to classify the ecological health of aquatic ecosystems. Accepting the premise that a healthy ecosystem is reflected in the ‘health’ of the constituent biota, we have advocated the application of using a suite of biomarkers (a biological response that signals exposure to and/or adverse effects of potential chemical, physical or biological hazards) to measure environmental health through an integrated assessment of the health status of individual organisms (and thereby the ecosystem).
History
Symposia
2007 Annual Science Conference, Helsinki, Finland
Session
Theme Session I: Effects of hazardous substances on ecosystem health in coastal and brackish-water ecosystems - present research, monitoring strategies, and future requirements
Abstract reference
I:01
Recommended citation
[Authors]. 2007. Can biomarkers measure the environmental health of estuaries?. 2007 Annual Science Conference, Helsinki, Finland. CM 2007/I:01. https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.25257928