Project information
Interactions among the chemicals, environment and biological systems and their consequences on the global, regional and local scales (INCHEMBIOL)
(INCHEMBIOL)
- Project Identification
- MSM0021622412
- Project Period
- 1/2005 - 12/2011
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR
- Research Intents
- MU Faculty or unit
- Faculty of Science
- Keywords
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Basic objective of the research plan is complex approach to study of interactions among chemical compounds present in environmental compartments and their biological effects, study of the fate of mainly persistent chemical compounds in the environment, their effects on the environment and living organisms including human.
Fate in this concept consists of a summary of transport (from their input in the environment, transport within the environmental compartment, where they are discharged, transport among compartments and long-range transport in the environment) and transformation processes (abiotic and biotic transformations). It also includes study of distribution equilibriums, properties conditioning their environmental behaviour, study of the transformation processes and their products.
This complex approach is a part of long-term research activities of the centre RECETOX. It is based on exploration of the causality among chemical (presence of chemical compounds in the environment) and biological (mechanisms of effects on the living organisms) part of the problem of chemical contamination of the environment.
This complex approach requires interdisciplinary, team collaboration of specialists from number of natural sciences and is very demanding on equipment and financial sources.
The submitted research plan concentrates on acquirement of new scientific information and experimental data concerned with problem of chemical contamination of the environment with persistent, toxic compounds (persistent, organic pollutants, heavy metals, organometallic compounds). It is necessary to distinguish this contamination from natural migration of the compounds in atmosphere, biosphere and geosphere, and also study its interactions within these environmental spheres.
The basic objective of the research plan is characterization of fate and negative effects of chemical compounds in real ecosystems by interconnection of a few scientific disciplines studying:
chemical compounds in the environment - fate - transport and transformation, distribution in and among compartments; their determination in different abiotic and biotic environmental components,
abiotic processes in the environment - differentiation and migration of the compounds in the atmosphere and geosphere - geology, geochemistry, paleontology and climatology
effects of chemical compounds on living organisms – biochemical toxicology, genotoxicology, ecotoxicology, ecological epidemiology;
ecologic and human risks combining knowledge of more disciplines for quantification of existing risks
Results
Publications
Total number of publications: 1715
2005
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Assessment of Human Health Risk due to Inhalation Exposure in Cattle and Pig Farms in South Moravia
Acta Veterinaria Brno, year: 2005, volume: 2005, edition: 74
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Atomic Spectrometry in Environmental Analysis
International Conference on Inorganic Environmental Analysis - Proceedings of the 4th Conference, year: 2005
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Barium-rich micas and manganoan sphalerite in sulphide-bearing dolomite marble from Rožná uranium deposit, Czech Republic: An example of Ba and Mn partitioning during regional metamorphism
Polskie Towarzystwo Mineralogiczne - Prace Specjalne, year: 2005, volume: 25/2005, edition: 1
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Barrandien v pohybu - stavba a tektonický vývoj pražského synklinoria
Sborník abstrakt a exkurzní průvodce. 2. sjezd České geologické společnosti. Slavonice 19.-22. října 2005., year: 2005
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Bioaccumulation of mercury in fish tissues: age-adjusted multi-species models for fresh water ecosystems
International Bioindicators 2005, year: 2005
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Bioaccumulation of mercury in muscle tissue of fish in the Elbe River (the Czech republic): multispecies monitoring study 1991 1996
Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, year: 2005, volume: 61, edition: 2
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Bioakumulace chemických forem (specií) rtuti ve vodních ekosystémech
Mikroelementy 2005, year: 2005
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Bioavailability of phenanthrene in artificial and natural soils
Year: 2005, type: Conference abstract
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Biodiversity in environmental bioindication: model measures suitable for various biological communities under different type of stress
International Bioindicators 2005, year: 2005
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BIOCHEMICAL CHANGES IN AQUATIC ORGANISMS IN RESPONSE TO PAHS AND THEIR N-HETEROCYCLIC DERIVATIVES
Year: 2005, type: Conference abstract