Fish in Ecotoxicological Studies
Journal Title: Ecologia Balkanica - Year 2015, Vol 7, Issue 1
Abstract
Water contamination (heavy metals, pesticides, POPs, etc.) is a serious environmental issue which has been raising lots of attention in the last decades because it can destroy aquatic ecosystems and hence, reduce biodiversity. In the field of ecotoxicology it is of main interest to investigate what the effects of organic and inorganic toxicants on different biological organization (cell, tissue, organism, population) are. Thus, many authors use different test organisms and particularly, fish. In the current study we aimed to present collected data from the last years which describe why fish is an appropriate species in terms of ecotoxicological research.
Authors and Affiliations
Vesela Yancheva, Iliana Velcheva, Stela Stoyanova, Elenka Georgieva
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