Derivation of aquatic life criteria for four phthalate esters and their ecological risk assessment in Liao River

Zheng, Xin and Yan, Zhenguang and Liu, Peiyuan and Li, Hong and Zhou, Junli and Wang, Yizhe and Fan, Juntao and Liu, Zhengtao (2019) Derivation of aquatic life criteria for four phthalate esters and their ecological risk assessment in Liao River. Chemosphere, 220. pp. 802-810. ISSN 0045-6535

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Abstract

As a critical family of endocrine disruptors, phthalate esters (PAEs) attracted considerable attentions due to increasingly detected worldwide. Aquatic life criteria (ALC) for PAEs are crucial for their accurate ecological risk assessment (ERA) and have seldom been derived before. Given this concern, the purpose of the present study is to optimize the ALCs of four priority PAEs to estimate their ecological risks in Liao River. Reproductive endpoint was found to be more sensitive than other endpoints. Thus, reproduction related toxicity data were screened to derive ALCs applying species sensitivity distribution (SSD) method. ALCs of DEHP, DBP, BBP and DEP were calculated to be 0.04, 0.62, 4.71 and 41.9 μg L−1, which indicated decreased toxicity in sequence. Then, the derived ALCs of the four PAEs were applied to estimate their ecological risks in Liao River. A total of 27 sampling sites were selected to detect and analyze the exposure concentrations of PAEs. ERA using the hazard quotient (HQ) method was conducted. The results demonstrated that DEHP exhibited higher risks at 92.6% of sampling sites, and risks posed by DBP were moderate at 63.0% sampling sites. However, risks posed by BBP were low at 70.4% of sampling sites, and there were no risks posed by DEP at 96.3% of sampling sites. The results of probabilistic ecological risk assessment (PERA) indicated that probabilities of exceeding effects thresholds on 5% of species were 60.41%, 0%, 0.12%, 14.28% for DEHP, DEP, BBP and DBP, respectively. The work provides useful information to protect aquatic species in Liao River.

Item Type:

Journal Article

Journal or Publication Title:

Chemosphere

Additional Information:

This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Chemosphere. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Chemosphere, 220, 2018 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.12.047

Uncontrolled Keywords:

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Subjects:

?? aquatic life criteriaecological risk assessmentendocrine disruptor chemicalphthalate esterreproductive toxicityenvironmental engineeringenvironmental chemistrygeneral chemistrypollutionhealth, toxicology and mutagenesischemistry(all) ??

Departments:

Faculty of Science and Technology > Lancaster Environment Centre

ID Code:

136365

Deposited By:

ep_importer_pure

Deposited On:

09 Sep 2019 13:30

Refereed?:

Yes

Published?:

Published