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Assessing the Impact of Multiple Stressors on Aquatic Biota: The Receptor’s Side Matters

Segner, H., Schmitt-Jansen, M., Sabater, S.·2014·Environmental Science & Technology

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Aquatic ecosystems are confronted with multiple stress factors. Current approaches to assess the risk of anthropogenic stressors to aquatic ecosystems are developed for single stressors and determine stressor effects primarily as a function of stressor properties. The cumulative impact of several stressors, however, may differ markedly from the impact of the single stressors and can result in nonlinear effects and ecological surprises. To meet the challenge of diagnosing and predicting multiple stressor impacts, assessment strategies should focus on properties of the biological receptors rather than on stressor properties. This change of paradigm is required because (i) multiple stressors affect multiple biological targets at multiple organizational levels, (ii) biological receptors differ in their sensitivities, vulnerabilities, and response dynamics to the individual stressors, and (iii) biological receptors function as networks, so that actions of stressors at disparate sites within the network can lead via indirect or cascading effects, to unexpected outcomes.

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Authors
Segner, H., Schmitt-Jansen, M., & Sabater, S.
Affiliations
  • University of Bern (CH)
  • Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, Department Bioanalytical Ecotoxicology, Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
  • Universitat de Girona (ES)
Corresponding author
Segner, H.
Venue
Environmental Science & Technology
Published
2014-06-26
Volume
48
Issue
14
Pages
7690-7696
ISSN
  • 0013-936X (ISSN-L)
  • 1520-5851
OpenAlex
W2312606757
Cited by
189
References
80
Citations by year
2026: 15 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 24 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 14 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 1
FWCI
9.21
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Environmental Science & Technology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • BORIS (University Library Bern) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Coastal and Marine Management
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Keywords
multiple stressors, aquatic organisms, receptors, receptor sensitivity, nonlinear effects, ecosystem networks, risk assessment, anthropogenic pressure
MeSH terms
Animals, Humans, Terminology as Topic, Stress, Physiological, Biota, Aquatic Organisms

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