Título: Título del capítulo: Sediment quality: new ecotoxicological approaches for assessing and understanding the process. From microbiome to behaviour
Resumen: The sediments are a key environmental compartment to assess the impact of contaminants in aquatic ecosystems. Pollutants can affect benthic organisms (e.g. microphytobenthos) inhabiting on and in sediments, modifying biodiversity and biogeochemical processes. Although, many ecotoxicity tests and other lines of evidence have been employed to establish sediment quality statusm the recent develoments of new omics techniques applied to sediments such as metagenomic and metaproteomic represent a new perspective to understanding the impact of pollution on microbiome, biodiversity and biogeochemical cycles.However, the biodiversity changes can be related to avoidance and recovery responses, a summary how this approach has been applied for upscaling fromecotoxicity responses to stress ecology.
Título del libro: Sediment Quality Guidelines
