Sylvain Slaby, Alain Geffard, Cédric Fisson, Matthieu Bonnevalle-Normand, Anne-Sophie Allonier-Fernandes, Rachid Amara, Anne Bado-Nilles, Isabelle Bonnard, Marc Bonnard, Mayélé Burlion-Giorgi, Amélie Cant, Audrey Catteau, Arnaud Chaumot, Katherine Costil, Romain Coulaud, Laurence Delahaut, Mamadou Diop, Aurélie Duflot, Olivier Geffard, Emmanuel Jestin, Frank Le Foll, Antoine Le Guernic, Christelle Lopes, Mélissa Palos-Ladeiro, Quentin Peignot, Agnès Poret, Antoine Serpentini, Gauthier Tremolet, Cyril Turiès, Benoît Xuereb
Nowadays, biomarkers are recognized as valuable tools to complement chemical and ecological assessments in biomonitoring programs. They provide insights into the effects of contaminant exposures on individuals and establish connections between environmental pressure and biological response at higher levels. In the last decade, strong improvements in the design of experimental protocols and the result interpretation facilitated the use of biomarker across wide geographical areas, including aquatic continua. Notably, the statistical establishment of reference values and thresholds enabled the discrimination of contamination effects in environmental conditions, allowed interspecies comparisons, and eliminated the need of a reference site...
April 10, 2024: Journal of Environmental Management