OVERVIEW
Global climate change is displayed as a set of stressors (increasing air temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, decreasing soil moisture content, higher ultraviolet radiation exposure) potentially impairing both biotic and abiotic ecosystem components. This may worsen in environments degraded by human activities where organisms have to deal with multiple stress factors, i.e. in multi-stressed environments, and the toxicity of the contaminants present may change depending on climate conditions. The overarching objective of GLOBALTOX is to assess how the toxicity of anthropogenic multi-stressed soils may be affected under the current global warming perspective, using soil invertebrates as bioindicators along with soil physicochemical and microbiological parameters.
An inter/multidisciplinary ecotoxicological approach will be applied to soils from different environments with high human pressure (e.g. metal mining, industrial and/or agricultural areas), different soil invertebrate species (e.g. collembolans, enchytraeids) and single and multiple combinations of different climate factors (air temperature, soil moisture content, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and ultraviolet radiation). Climate factor combinations will be based on the emission scenarios predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) by the year 2100. For a complete overview of the problem, the project will rely on changes in key soil parameters (e.g. pH, organic matter, nutrient cycling, microbial community) and soil invertebrates (e.g. body metal concentrations, enzymatic biomarkers, DNA-damage, gene expression) to understand the effects at organism/population level (e.g. survival, reproduction, avoidance behaviour).
An inter/multidisciplinary ecotoxicological approach will be applied to soils from different environments with high human pressure (e.g. metal mining, industrial and/or agricultural areas), different soil invertebrate species (e.g. collembolans, enchytraeids) and single and multiple combinations of different climate factors (air temperature, soil moisture content, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and ultraviolet radiation). Climate factor combinations will be based on the emission scenarios predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) by the year 2100. For a complete overview of the problem, the project will rely on changes in key soil parameters (e.g. pH, organic matter, nutrient cycling, microbial community) and soil invertebrates (e.g. body metal concentrations, enzymatic biomarkers, DNA-damage, gene expression) to understand the effects at organism/population level (e.g. survival, reproduction, avoidance behaviour).
OBJECTIVES
- Assess the sensitivity of different soil invertebrate species to toxicity changes in anthropogenic multi-stressed soils induced by single climate factors (air temperature, soil moisture content, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and ultraviolet radiation) and its relation to changes in soil physicochemical and microbiological parameters.
- How the toxicity of anthropogenic multi-stressed soils may be affected under different climate change scenarios simulated by climate factor combinations (air temperature, soil moisture content, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and ultraviolet radiation), using soil invertebrates as bioindicators.
APPROACH
GLOBALTOX will consist on three work packages:
- Exposure of soil invertebrates to anthropogenic multi-stressed soils under single climate factors.
- Exposure of soil invertebrates to anthropogenic multi-stressed soils under climate factors combinations based on emission scenarios predicted by the IPCC.
- Monitoring, coordination and administration of the overall project.
PROJECT ID
Duration: 01.01.2017 – 31.12.2018 (24 months)
Budget: 148,635.60 €
Funding Entity: H2020-MSCA, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship
Grant Agreement No.: 704332
Host Institution: Department of Biology & CESAM, University of Aveiro (Portugal)
Secondment Institution: Department of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
MSCA-IF Fellow: María Nazaret González Alcaraz
MSCA-IF Supervisor: Susana Loureiro
Tel: +351 234 247 304 / +351 234 370 787
Email: [email protected] / [email protected]
Duration: 01.01.2017 – 31.12.2018 (24 months)
Budget: 148,635.60 €
Funding Entity: H2020-MSCA, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship
Grant Agreement No.: 704332
Host Institution: Department of Biology & CESAM, University of Aveiro (Portugal)
Secondment Institution: Department of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
MSCA-IF Fellow: María Nazaret González Alcaraz
MSCA-IF Supervisor: Susana Loureiro
Tel: +351 234 247 304 / +351 234 370 787
Email: [email protected] / [email protected]