Phytoplankton Response to Environmental Variables and Organic Pollutants. Laboratory Cultures and Numerical Simulations Experiments

Fiori, Emanuela (2013) Phytoplankton Response to Environmental Variables and Organic Pollutants. Laboratory Cultures and Numerical Simulations Experiments, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Scienze ambientali: tutela e gestione delle risorse naturali, 25 Ciclo. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/5216.
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Abstract

Herbicides are becoming emergent contaminants in Italian surface, coastal and ground waters, due to their intensive use in agriculture. In marine environments herbicides have adverse effects on non-target organisms, as primary producers, resulting in oxygen depletion and decreased primary productivity. Alterations of species composition in algal communities can also occur due to the different sensitivity among the species. In the present thesis the effects of herbicides, widely used in the Northern Adriatic Sea, on different algal species were studied. The main goal of this work was to study the influence of temperature on algal growth in the presence of the triazinic herbicide terbuthylazine (TBA), and the cellular responses adopted to counteract the toxic effects of the pollutant (Chapter 1 and 2). The development of simulation models to be applied in environmental management are needed to organize and track information in a way that would not be possible otherwise and simulate an ecological prospective. The data collected from laboratory experiments were used to simulate algal responses to the TBA exposure at increasing temperature conditions (Chapter 3). Part of the thesis was conducted in foreign countries. The work presented in Chapter 4 was focused on the effect of high light on growth, toxicity and mixotrophy of the ichtyotoxic species Prymnesium parvum. In addition, a mesocosm experiment was conducted in order to study the synergic effect of the pollutant emamectin benzoate with other anthropogenic stressors, such as oil pollution and induced phytoplankton blooms (Chapter 5).

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Tipologia del documento
Tesi di dottorato
Autore
Fiori, Emanuela
Supervisore
Co-supervisore
Dottorato di ricerca
Scuola di dottorato
Scienze della terra e dell'ambiente
Ciclo
25
Coordinatore
Settore disciplinare
Settore concorsuale
Parole chiave
anthropogenic factors, environmental factors, herbicide, phytoplankton, microalgae, temperature, ecosystem model, harmful algae, light, zooplankton, mesocosm, emamectin, mineral oil
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DOI
10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/5216
Data di discussione
26 Marzo 2013
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