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Effect of land use on pollution status and risk of fish endocrine disruption in small farmland ponds

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Abstract

To study whether the intensity of agricultural activities affects pesticides loads in pond environment, a large number of Belgian farmland ponds were surveyed in spring 2004. Temporal distribution of pollutants was also investigated over restricted survey ponds sampled three times round year 2007. Sedentary pond Prussian carp juveniles were also captured to determine their brain aromatase activity (AA) and plasma vitellogenin (VTG) levels. Heavy metal distribution was also examined in various pond matrices. Amongst the pesticides analysed, only herbicides were detected. Contamination of pond water by atrazine was frequently observed during spring 2004, while isoproturon and glyphosate were detected round year 2007. Levels of herbicides were inversely related to the distance of ponds to crop field, and values peaked in April or October. Absence of endocrine disruptors in pond water was confirmed by lack of modulation in VTG and AA in male fish. Heavy metals were present in all the pond matrices, but overall contamination levels were low. The results demonstrated that Belgian ponds were mainly contaminated by herbicides and that pond sedentary fish were not affected by endocrine disruptors. They also demonstrated a marked effect of land-use intensity on herbicide pollution which can be mitigated by an adjustment of the buffer zones.

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Acknowledgements

We thank A. Evrard for help with the fieldwork. This study was financially supported by the Belgian federal Science Policy (Belspo) in the framework of the PODO II-program, project MANSCAPE (EV/01/29E), and the SDD-program, project PONDSCAPE (SD/BD/02).

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  1. University of Namur, URBE-NARILIS, 61 Rue de Bruxelles, 5000, Namur, Belgium

    Syaghalirwa N. M. Mandiki, Virginie Gillardin & Patrick Kestemont

  2. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000, Brussels, Belgium

    Koen Martens, Dirk Ercken & Els De Roeck

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    Tom De Bie, Steven A. S. Declerck & Luc De Meester

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Guest editors: R. Céréghino, D. Boix, H.-M. Cauchie, K. Martens & B. Oertli / Understanding the role of ponds in a changing world

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Mandiki, S.N.M., Gillardin, V., Martens, K. et al. Effect of land use on pollution status and risk of fish endocrine disruption in small farmland ponds. Hydrobiologia 723, 103–120 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-013-1641-3

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