Yangtze Three Gorges Reservoir, China: A holistic assessment of organic pollution, mutagenic effects of sediments and genotoxic impacts on fish  

作　　者：Tilman Floehr Bj?rn Scholz-Starke Hongxia Xiao Josef Koch Lingling Wu Junli Hou Anja Wolf Axel Bergmann Kerstin Bluhm Xingzhong Yuan Martina Ro?-Nickoll Andreas Sch?ffer Henner Hollert 

机构地区：[1]Department of Ecosystem Analysis,Institute for Environmental Research,RWTH Aachen University [2]Key Laboratory of Yangtze River Water Environment,Ministry of Education,Tongji University [3]East China Sea Fisheries Research Institute [4]IWW Rhenish-Westfalian Institute for Water Research [5]Institute for Applied Geosciences,Technische Universit?t Darmstadt [6]College of Resources and Environmental Science,Chongqing University [7]State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Research Reuse,School of the Environment,Nanjing University

出　　处：《Journal of Environmental Sciences》2015年第12期63-82,共20页环境科学学报（英文版）

基　　金：the Tongji University, Shanghai, and the Chongqing University, Chongqing, as part of the MICROTOX project ("Transformation, Bioaccumulation and Toxicity of Organic Micropollutants in the Yangtze Three Gorges Reservoir"; No. FKZ 02WT1141);the Sino-German joint environmental research program "Yangtze-Hydro - Sustainable Management of the Newly Created Ecosystem at the Three Gorges Dam" (No. FKZ 02WT; Bergmann et al. (2011); www.yangtzeproject.de);part of the research cluster "Pollutants/Water/Sediment-Impacts of Transformation and Transportation Processes on the Yangtze Water Quality";supported by a cooperation project with Chinese colleagues also sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (No. DLR FKZ 01DO12007);the Chinese 111 Program

摘　　要：Besides obvious benefits,the Three Gorges Dam＇s construction resulted in new pollution scenarios with the potentials to threaten the Three Gorges Reservoir（TGR） ecosystem.In order to record organic contamination,to find links to ecotoxicological impacts and to serve as reference for ensuing monitoring,several sites in the TGR area were screened applying the triad approach with additional lines-of-evidence as a holistic assessment method.Sediments and the benthic fish species Pelteobagrus vachellii were sampled in 2011 and 2012 to determine organic pollution levels,mutagenic potentials and genotoxic impacts.Two regional hot-spots near the cities of Chongqing and Kaixian were identified and further investigated in 2013.Only polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons（PAHs） could be detected in sediments in 2011（165-1653 ng/g）,emphasizing their roles as key pollutants of the area.Their ubiquity was confirmed at Chongqing（150-433 ng/g） and Kaixian（127-590 ng/g） in2013.Concentrations were comparable to other major Chinese and German rivers.However,the immense sediment influx suggested a deposition of 216-636 kg PAH/day（0.2-0.6 mg PAH/（m2·day））,indicating an ecotoxicological risk.PAH source analysis highlighted primary impacts of combustion sources on the more industrialized upper TGR section,whereas petrogenic sources dominated the mid-low section.Furthermore,sediment extracts from several sites exhibited significant activities of frameshift promutagens in the Ames fluctuation assay.Additionally,significant genotoxic impairments in erythrocytes of P.vachellii were detected（Chongqing/Kaixian）,demonstrating the relevance of genotoxicity as animportant mode of action in the TGR＇s fish.PAHs,their derivatives and non-target compounds are considered as main causative agents.Besides obvious benefits,the Three Gorges Dam＇s construction resulted in new pollution scenarios with the potentials to threaten the Three Gorges Reservoir（TGR） ecosystem.In order to record organic contamination,to find links to ecotoxicological impacts and to serve as reference for ensuing monitoring,several sites in the TGR area were screened applying the triad approach with additional lines-of-evidence as a holistic assessment method.Sediments and the benthic fish species Pelteobagrus vachellii were sampled in 2011 and 2012 to determine organic pollution levels,mutagenic potentials and genotoxic impacts.Two regional hot-spots near the cities of Chongqing and Kaixian were identified and further investigated in 2013.Only polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons（PAHs） could be detected in sediments in 2011（165-1653 ng/g）,emphasizing their roles as key pollutants of the area.Their ubiquity was confirmed at Chongqing（150-433 ng/g） and Kaixian（127-590 ng/g） in2013.Concentrations were comparable to other major Chinese and German rivers.However,the immense sediment influx suggested a deposition of 216-636 kg PAH/day（0.2-0.6 mg PAH/（m2·day））,indicating an ecotoxicological risk.PAH source analysis highlighted primary impacts of combustion sources on the more industrialized upper TGR section,whereas petrogenic sources dominated the mid-low section.Furthermore,sediment extracts from several sites exhibited significant activities of frameshift promutagens in the Ames fluctuation assay.Additionally,significant genotoxic impairments in erythrocytes of P.vachellii were detected（Chongqing/Kaixian）,demonstrating the relevance of genotoxicity as animportant mode of action in the TGR＇s fish.PAHs,their derivatives and non-target compounds are considered as main causative agents.

关 键 词：YANGTZE Three Gorges Reservoir Triad approach Sediment FISH MUTAGENICITY GENOTOXICITY PAH 

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