Spatial distribution, mass flux, and ecological risk of antibiotics in Taiwan and Luzon Straits: A case in the West Pacific Region.
Mar Pollut Bull
; 201: 116238, 2024 Apr.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-38461781
ABSTRACT
Emerging pollutants are hazardous to the ecological environment and human health, and these issues have attracted increasing attention from scholars. In the current study, the Taiwan Strait is long and narrow, highly influenced by terrestrial domains, and frequently disturbed by human activities. Conversely, the Luzon Strait is an open sea far from the shore, and the impact of human activities on it is minimal. The description of antibiotics in two different types of seas revealed that contaminants were most commonly detected in both straits. In particular, the coasts of the Minjiang River, Jinjiang River, and Jiulong River were found to be pollution hotspots in the Taiwan Strait. The calculation of risk quotients revealed that antibiotics were more sensitive to algae. Furthermore, estimation of the risk quotients of the mixtures found that antibiotics in the environment do not pose a high risk to aquatic organisms at different trophic levels.
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Full text:
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Collection:
01-internacional
Health context:
2_ODS3
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Water Pollutants, Chemical
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Anti-Bacterial Agents
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
En
Journal:
Mar Pollut Bull
Year:
2024
Document type:
Article