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Food web effects of titanium dioxide nanoparticles in an outdoor freshwater mesocosm experiment
Date
2016-01-01
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Jovanovic, Boris
Bezirci, Gizem
Cagan, Ali Serhan
Coppens, Jan
Levi, Eti E.
Oluz, Zehra
Tuncel, Eylul
DURAN, HATİCE
Beklioğlu, Meryem
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Over the course of 78days, nine outdoor mesocosms, each with 1350L capacity, were situated on a pontoon platform in the middle of a lake and exposed to 0gL(-1) TiO2, 25gL(-1) TiO2 or 250gL(-1) TiO2 nanoparticles in the form of E171 TiO2 human food additive five times a week. Mesocosms were inoculated with sediment, phytoplankton, zooplankton, macroinvertebrates, macrophytes and fish before exposure, ensuring a complete food web. Physicochemical parameters of the water, nutrient concentrations, and biomass of the taxa were monitored. Concentrations of 25gL(-1) TiO2 and 250gL(-1) TiO2 caused a reduction in available soluble reactive phosphorus in the mesocosms by 15 and 23%, respectively, but not in the amount of total phosphorus. The biomass of Rotifera was significantly reduced by 32 and 57% in the TiO2 25gL(-1) and TiO2 250gL(-1) treatments, respectively, when compared to the control; however, the biomass of the other monitored groupsCladocera, Copepoda, phytoplankton, macrophytes, chironomids and fishremained unaffected. In conclusion, environmentally relevant concentrations of TiO2 nanoparticles may negatively affect certain parameters and taxa of the freshwater lentic aquatic ecosystem. However, these negative effects are not significant enough to affect the overall function of the ecosystem, as there were no cascade effects leading to a major change in its trophic state or primary production.
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Environmental toxicology
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Mesocosms
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Plankton
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Titanium dioxide
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/33336
Journal
NANOTOXICOLOGY
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3109/17435390.2016.1140242
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B. Jovanovic et al., “Food web effects of titanium dioxide nanoparticles in an outdoor freshwater mesocosm experiment,”
NANOTOXICOLOGY
, pp. 902–912, 2016, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/33336.