Agricultural Reviews

  • Chief EditorPradeep K. Sharma

  • Print ISSN 0253-1496

  • Online ISSN 0976-0741

  • NAAS Rating 4.84

Frequency :
Quarterly (March, June, September & December)
Indexing Services :
AGRICOLA, Google Scholar, CrossRef, CAB Abstracting Journals, Chemical Abstracts, Indian Science Abstracts, EBSCO Indexing Services, Index Copernicus
Submit

Reviewer Article

Agricultural Reviews, volume 42 issue 4 (december 2021) : 450-454

​Ecotoxicology and Its Impact on Ecosystem: A Review

R.P. Singh, Naresh Chandra, Madhu Swamy, Shashi Bharti
1Nanaji Deshmukh Veterinary Science University, Jabalpur-482 001, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Cite article:- Singh R.P., Chandra Naresh, Swamy Madhu, Bharti Shashi (2021). ​Ecotoxicology and Its Impact on Ecosystem: A Review. Agricultural Reviews. 42(4): 450-454. doi: 10.18805/ag.R-2206.

ABSTRACT

Ecotoxicology is a relatively new science that helps to protect the existing ecosystem from toxic environmental pollutants. The scientists are working towards prediction, observation, monitoring, risk assessment and prevention from these toxicants and their harmful effects on population, community and ecosystem. It is a multidisciplinary field, which integrates toxicology, chemistry and ecology. Presently the human interventions and chemical production without proper disposal are one of the most responsible factors for presence of harmful pollutants in the biosphere. The toxic chemical may cause detrimental effects like change in behavior pattern of population, reduced growth, physiological and molecular changes and developmental changes ultimately may change the whole exposed ecosystem.  Although, ecotoxicologists are facing a lot of problems to predict the effect of a chemical on an individual living population, they are doing a great job to protect our ecosystem.

REFERENCES


  1. Ashauer, R. and Brown, C.D. (2013). Highly time-variable exposure to chemicals toward an assessment strategy. Integrated Enviromental Assessment Management. 9: 27-33. 

  2. Bayen, S. (2012). Occurrence, bioavailability and toxic effects of trace metals and organic contaminants in mangrove ecosystems. Environment International. 48: 84-101.

  3. Bhat, S. (2013). Ecotoxicology and impact on biodiversity.Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry. 2: 1-19.

  4. Carr, R.S., Biedenbach, J.M. and Nipper, M. (2006). Influence of potentially confounding factors on sea urchin porewater toxicity tests. Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 51: 573-579.

  5. Clements, W. and Jason, R. (2009): Community responses to contaminants: Using basic ecological principles to predict ecotoxicological events. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 28: 1789-1800.

  6. Dash, S.K., Nayyar, S., Kakkar, S.S. and Jindal, R. (2019). Adverse effects of environmental lead exposure on hepatic, renal and thyroid function of buffaloes. Indian Journal of Animal Research. 53(9): 1162-1166.

  7. Drzezdzon, J., Jacewicz, D. and Chmurzynski, L. (2018). The impact of environmental contamination on the generation of rective oxygen and nitrogen species-Consequences for plants and humans. Environemnt International. 119: 133-151.

  8. Gore, A. Crews, C., Doan, D. and Zota, A. (2014). Introduction to Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals. Endocrine Society, the University of Texas at Austin.  pp 1-52.

  9. Gupta, S.K., Gupta, S., Rajwade, J., Panigrahy, K. and Shinde, K.P. (2017). Effect and control of pesticide toxicity on agriculture, animals and human health: A review. Bhartiya Krishi Anusandhan Patrika. (32): 115-118.

  10. Hendriks, I.E., Duarte, C.M. and Alvarez, A. (2010). Vulnerability of marine biodiversity to ocean acidification: a meta-analysis. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 86: 157-164.

  11. Irena, T. (2004). Ecotoxicology, environmental safety and sustainable development- challenges of the third millennium. Ecotoxicology and environmentalsafety. 58: 3-6.

  12. Kalipci, E., Ozdemir, C., Oztas, F. and Sahinkaya, S. (2010). Ecotoxicological effects of Methyl parathion on living. African Journal of Agricultural Research. 20: 712-718.

  13. Kanwar, J.S. and Sandha, M.S. (2000). Waste Water Pollution Injury to Vegetable Crops - A Review. Agricultural Reviews. 21(2): 133-136.

  14. Lasat, M.M. (2002). Phytoextraction of toxic metals: A review of biological mechanisms. Journal of Environmental Quality. 31: 109-120.

  15. Matthies, M., Berding, V. and Beyer, A. (2004). Probabilistic uncertainty analysis of the European Union system for the evaluation of substances multimedia regional distributionmodel. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 23: 2494-2502.

  16. NPIC (2011). Ecotoxicology topic fact sheet. Oregon State University, United States. pp 1-52.

  17. Ravikumar, Y., Madhuri, D., Lakshman, M., Reddy, A.G. and Kalakumar, B. (2021). Changes in biochemical parameters, antioxidative enzymes and histopathology of liver induced by cadmium (Cd) and chlorpyrifos (CPF) in wistar rats. Indian Journal of Animal Research. 55(4): 1-5.

  18. Relyea, R. and Hoverman, J. (2006). Assessing the ecology in ecotoxicology: a review and synthesis in freshwater systems. Ecology Letters. 9: 1157-1171.

  19. Straalen, N.M. (2003). Ecotoxicology becomes stress ecology. Environmental Science and Technology. pp 325-330.

  20. Thompson, L.A. and Darwish, W.S. (2019). Environmental chemical contaminants in food: Review of a global problem. Journal of Toxicology. 10: 1155-1168. 

  21. Tollenson, W.H. (2018). Mechanistic ecotoxicology and environmental toxicology, Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part C. 36:164-166. 

  22. USEPA (2011). Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention. United States Environmental Protection Agency, United States. pp 80-104.

  23. Valavanidis, A., Dassenakis, T. M. and Scoullos, M. (2006). Molecular biomarkers of oxidative stress in aquatic organisms in relation to toxic environmental pollutants. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 64: 178-189.

  24. Vighi, M. and Villa, S. (2013). Ecotoxicology: The Challenges for the 21st Century.Toxics.1:18-35.

  25. Zhang, X., Xia, P., Wang, P., Yang, J. and Baird, D. (2018). Omics Advances in Ecotoxicology. Environmental Science and Technology. 52(7): 3842-3851.

  26. Zhou, A., Sun, Y. and Xu, Z. (2009). Ecotoxicological effects of typical personal careproducts on seed germination and seedling development of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Chemosphere. 28: 1428-1434.
Reviewed By

Download Article
In this Article
    Contact us
    Follow us

    Editorial Board

    View all (0)