Broadening the perspective of environmental stress in aquatic ecosystems due to contamination: An approach using the habitat selection response based on a cost-benefits balance
The Project
Goals
A schematic representation of the concepts linked to toxicity (defined according to the traditional forced exposure approach) and repellency (defined according to the non-forced multi-compartmented exposure approach).
The scheme shows also the main aspects and levels of the effects measured in both approaches, since direct (stress to individuals and loss of behavioral and genetic homeostasis) to indirect (perception of contamination with consequences avoidance and changes of the selected habitat) effects.
This conceptual approach provides a general view about what it is possible to conclude on a contaminant if the concepts of toxicity (implying sensitivity to contamination) and repellency (implying ecosystem vulnerability due to loss of individuals) are complementarily studied.
Researchers
Cristiano V.M. Araujo
Eloísa Ramos Rodríguez
Gema Parra Anguita
Francisco Baldó
Julio López Doval
Marta Sendra
Antonio Moreno
David Roque
Meli Agulló Cornejo
Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs)
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), created in 2015 by the United Nations Member States, aim to improve the quality of life, searching for solutions for poverty, inequality and climate changes in all the developed and developing countries.
Among the 17 goals, some are linked to environmental quality of aquatic ecosystems. The current project is focused on understanding how contamination might change the quality of ecosystems (becoming them unsuitable to accommodate life) and, therefore, how it drives the spatial dispersion of organisms. Then, BrEStress tries to provide information that could be useful to three specific SDGs: #13 - Climate action, #14 - Life below water) and #15 - Life on land).
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Funded by
BrEStress is a project funded in the
framework of the National Programme
for Research; call 2019 I+D+i
Stay in touch
Cristiano V.M Araújo
Institute of Marine Sciences of Andalusia
(ICMAN-CSIC)
Campus Universitario Río San Pedro, s/n
11519 Puerto Real, Cádiz
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