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Exposure of rotifers, crustaceans and sea urchins to produced formation waters and seawaters in the Mediterranean Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2010

L. Manfra ,
E. De Nicola ,
C. Maggi ,
E. Zambianchi ,
D. Caramiello ,
A. Toscano ,
D. Cianelli  and
A.M. Cicero
L. Manfra*
Affiliation:
ISPRA Advanced Institute for environmental protection and research (ex ICRAM), Rome, Italy
E. De Nicola
Affiliation:
ILT Technology s.r.l, Lucca, Italy
C. Maggi
Affiliation:
ISPRA Advanced Institute for environmental protection and research (ex ICRAM), Rome, Italy
E. Zambianchi
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘Parthenope’, Department of Environmental Sciences, Naples, Italy
D. Caramiello
Affiliation:
Stazione Zoologica A. Dohrn, Naples, Italy
A. Toscano
Affiliation:
Stazione Zoologica A. Dohrn, Naples, Italy
D. Cianelli
Affiliation:
ISPRA Advanced Institute for environmental protection and research (ex ICRAM), Rome, Italy Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘Parthenope’, Department of Environmental Sciences, Naples, Italy
A.M. Cicero
Affiliation:
ISPRA Advanced Institute for environmental protection and research (ex ICRAM), Rome, Italy
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: L. Manfra, ISPRAVia di Casalotti 300, 00166 Rome, Italy email: loredana.manfra@isprambiente.it
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Abstract

The toxicity of produced formation water (PFW) originating from four natural gas production platforms located in the Adriatic Sea (Italy), and of seawater samples collected near these installations is assessed by means of bioassays with Brachionus plicatilis, with the brine shrimp Artemia franciscana and with Paracentrotus lividus. The toxicological response of these specimens was evaluated in order to identify the most sensitive one, in the consumer compartment, and to design a bioassay battery specific for samples collected in the surroundings of a gas platform. Larval mortality of rotifers, larval immobilization of crustaceans, fertilization success/failure (sperm cell test) and larval (pluteus) development success/failure (embryo toxicity test) of sea urchins were taken as ecotoxicological endpoints. The PFW sampled on two platforms resulted toxic, while no toxicity was recorded in seawater samples collected in the vicinity of the platforms, even in coincidence with the PFW discharge operations. The species and bioassays employed have shown different responses to PFW: P. lividus turned out to be more sensitive than A. franciscana and B. plicatilis. In particular, the embryo toxicity test showed a higher toxicity than the sperm cell test.

Keywords

natural gas platformsproduced formation waterAdriatic Seabioassaystoxicity assessmentrotiferscrustaceansurchinssub lethal endpointlethal endpoint
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 91 , Issue 1 , February 2011 , pp. 155 - 161
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2010

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