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Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Mediterranean Watersheds

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Emerging Contaminants in River Ecosystems

Part of the book series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry ((HEC,volume 46))

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The present chapter provides a general perspective on the occurrence, ecotoxicological risk, and prioritization of emerging and classical contaminants in Mediterranean river basins with special focus on the Iberian Peninsula as representative case, in the light of the results recently obtained. Risk assessment and prioritization criteria based on ecotoxicological risk with respect to different trophic levels are explained and applied to the Mediterranean basins studied. This enables to rank contaminants according to their ecotoxic risk and to quantify their joint effect as a mixture on a river site.

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  1. Water and Soil Quality Research Group, Department of Environmental Chemistry, IDAEA, CSIC, Jordi Girona 18-26, 08034, Barcelona, Spain

    Maja Kuzmanovic, Antoni Ginebreda & Damià Barceló

  2. Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), Emili Grahit 101, 17003, Girona, Spain

    Mira Petrovic & Damià Barceló

  3. ICREA, Passeig de Lluis Companys 23, 08010, Barcelona, Spain

    Mira Petrovic

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  2. Catalan Institute for Water Research, Girona, Spain

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  3. Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain

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Kuzmanovic, M., Ginebreda, A., Petrovic, M., Barceló, D. (2015). Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Mediterranean Watersheds. In: Petrovic, M., Sabater, S., Elosegi, A., Barceló, D. (eds) Emerging Contaminants in River Ecosystems. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 46. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2015_5016

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