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Environmental assessment of Neotropical streams using fish as bioindicators: a multibiomarker and integrated approach

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Freshwater ecosystems are among the most threatened habitats on Earth, due mainly to anthropogenic pollutants made up of complex mixtures. The Iguaçu River is world famous for the Iguaçu Falls and highlighted by its endemism. Unfortunately, it is considered the second most polluted urban river in Brazil. We aimed to perform an environmental evaluation of Neotropical streams in the Iguaçu River basin, using a multibiomarker approach from a land use and landscape perspective. A set of biomarkers in the fish Psalidodon bifasciatus was analyzed using an Integrated Biomarker Response (IBR) index and correlated with surrounding land uses. Agricultural and urban sites presented more alterations compared to references sites, with elevated protein carbonyls at agricultural sites, increased DNA damage and depletion of glutathione S-transferase at urban sites and decreased glutathione associated with higher histopathological indices at urban and agricultural sites. The IBR shows a consistent increase in negative effects in anthropized areas, with similar values at agricultural and urban sites. The multibiomarker approach, associated with a well-elaborated sample design and a statistical analysis, is an ideal method to obtain more conclusive results about the effects of human activities, revealing the effective result of exposure in the real world.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná (UNIOESTE) for the support needed to perform the analysis, and members of the LIEB (Laboratory of Ichthyology, Ecology and Biomonitoring) at UNIOESTE for helping with field collections and the processing of parts of the studied materials. Authors thank Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) and Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).

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  1. Programa de Pós-graduação em Biotecnologia, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Estr. p/Boa Esperança, km 04 - Zona Rural, Dois Vizinhos, PR, CEP 85660-000, Brazil

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  2. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Comparada, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Av. Colombo 5790, Maringá, PR, CEP 87020-900, Brazil

    Crislei Larentis

  3. Programa de Pós-graduação em Agroecossistemas, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Estr. p/Boa Esperança, km 04 - Zona Rural, Dois Vizinhos, PR, CEP 85660-000, Brazil

    Elton Celton de Oliveira, Aliciane de Almeida Roque, Catia Cappelli Wachtel & Ana Paula da Silva

  4. Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Avenida Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Porto Alegre, CEP 91501-970, Brazil

    Mayara Pereira Neves

  5. Laboratório de Ictiologia, Ecologia e Biomonitoramentos (LIEB), Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná – UNIOESTE, Campus Cascavel, R. Universitária, 1619, Cascavel, PR, CEP 85819-110, Brazil

    Arielli Giachini Zavaski, Giovanni de Oliveira Nagasawa Costa, Joao Paulo de Arruda Amorim & Rosilene Luciana Delariva

  6. Departamento de Biologia Celular, Centro Politécnico, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Av. Cel. Francisco H. dos Santos, 100 - Jardim das Américas, Curitiba, CEP 81531-970, Brazil

    Aliciane de Almeida Roque & Ciro Alberto de Oliveira Ribeiro

  7. Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Estr. p/Boa Esperança, km 04 - Zona Rural, Dois Vizinhos, PR, CEP 85660-000, Brazil

    Emanuele Barreto Stange de Lima

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de Castilhos Ghisi, N., Larentis, C., de Oliveira, E.C. et al. Environmental assessment of Neotropical streams using fish as bioindicators: a multibiomarker and integrated approach. Hydrobiologia 849, 4587–4604 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-020-04460-2

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