Nematode-based biomarkers as critical risk indicators on assessing the impact of silver nanoparticles on soil ecosystems |
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Affiliation: | 1. Technical University of Denmark, Department of Environmental Engineering, Miljøvej, Building 113, Kgs. Lyngby DK-2800, Denmark;2. Roskilde University, Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change, Universitetsvej 1, P.O. Box 260, Roskilde DK-4000, Denmark;1. Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Católica de Colombia, Colombia;2. Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias y Recursos Geoagroambientales (CENIGAA), Colombia;3. Grupo de Investigación de Desarrollo y Uso de la Biomasa, Campus Piedra de Bolívar, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Cartagena, Cartagena, 130015, Colombia |
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Abstract: | Soil contamination caused by silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) released from sewage treatment plants (STPs) is of great public concern. Understanding the relationships between the physicochemical properties of AgNPs and their toxicity is critical for environmental and health risk analysis. Here we presented an approach for rapidly screening and assessing the potential toxicity risk of AgNPs in general and sludge-treated soils based on the nematode Caenhorhabditis elegans-based probabilistic risk assessment framework. The soil environmental risks were estimated depending on the characteristics of AgNPs and geographic regions. We assessed the risk for soils exceeding a threshold of C. elegans neurotoxicity based on the statistical models. Our results indicated that locomotion inhibition of C. elegans was depending on surface properties, diameter, and exposure time of AgNPs. Here we showed that the overall sewage sludge-released AgNPs-associated soil contamination risk was very low among Europe, U.S., and Switzerland. However, large production and widespread use of AgNPs are highly likely to pose long-term ecotoxicity risk on general and sludge-treated soils, particularly for 26 nm citrate-coated AgNPs. Our approach of integrating probabilistic risk model and C. elegans-based ecological indicator provides an effective tool to rapidly screen and assess the impacts of STPs-released AgNPs on soil environment. We suggest that C. elegans as a proxy for estimating soil risk metrics can help develop methods of management for mitigating the metal NPs-induced toxicity on terrestrial ecosystems. |
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Keywords: | Silver nanoparticles Nematode Ecotoxicity Soil ecosystems Risk assessment |
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