The aim of the present study was to assess the environmental quality of Orbetello lagoon (Tyrrhenian coast, Italy), using a biomonitoring method based on measuring organochlorinated pollutants in the Anguilla anguilla, chosen as sentinel organism, and remote sensing data obtained by elaboration of Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM) data of 2002. Polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine pesticides were determined by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry in muscle of European eels captured in seven sites having different levels of pollution in Orbetello lagoon. Remote sensing data and chemical analysis showed the Albegna river as a probable vehicle of pesticides (hexachlorocyclohexanes). © 2009, SAGE Publications. All rights reserved.
Anthropogenic impacts on the Orbetello lagoon ecosystem / Focardi, S.; Mariottini, M.; Renzi, M.; Perra, G.; Focardi, S. E.. - In: TOXICOLOGY AND INDUSTRIAL HEALTH. - ISSN 0748-2337. - 25:4-5(2009), pp. 365-371. [10.1177/0748233709106465]
Anthropogenic impacts on the Orbetello lagoon ecosystem
PERRA, G.;
2009
Abstract
The aim of the present study was to assess the environmental quality of Orbetello lagoon (Tyrrhenian coast, Italy), using a biomonitoring method based on measuring organochlorinated pollutants in the Anguilla anguilla, chosen as sentinel organism, and remote sensing data obtained by elaboration of Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM) data of 2002. Polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine pesticides were determined by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry in muscle of European eels captured in seven sites having different levels of pollution in Orbetello lagoon. Remote sensing data and chemical analysis showed the Albegna river as a probable vehicle of pesticides (hexachlorocyclohexanes). © 2009, SAGE Publications. All rights reserved.
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