Author:
Rodrigues Sara,Pinto Ivo,Nogueira Sandra,C. Antunes Sara
Abstract
Several types of stressors come into natural water bodies, degrading their quality, and having harmful effects on aquatic biota. As a result, many attempts have been made to develop complementary techniques to those imposed by the Water Framework Directive (WFD) to improve the water quality assessment strategy in a shorter time and be more faithful to the components and contaminants of the ecosystem. Daphnia magna has been extensively used as a model organism for ecotoxicity testing, and its ecotoxicological responses to several disturbance factors have been being well characterized. From this perspective, this work aimed to evaluate the applicability of the feeding bioassays with D. magna, as well as early distress tools (biochemical biomarkers), in the assessment of water quality of natural waters of reservoirs. Samplings were performed in several sites in three Portuguese reservoirs and were conducted in the spring of 2020. Bioassays and biomarkers results showed sensitivity to different reservoirs since the sites are minimally or moderately impacted. Biological responses can be related to several environmental factors, such as surrounding areas, seston composition, and chemical analysis (WFD), among others not quantified. This set of biological responses has presented good concordance with the ecological potential of the reservoirs.
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