1. Editor’s Note

   • Lee Shugart

   Editor Note’s 25 August 2013 Pages: 1185 - 1185

2. Use of diatom assemblages as biomonitor of the impact of treated uranium mining effluent discharge on a stream: case study of the Ritord watershed (Center-West France)

   • Olivier Herlory
   • Jean-Marc Bonzom
   • Michel Coste

   OriginalPaper 01 August 2013 Pages: 1186 - 1199

   

3. Effects of low-level hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) exposure on cardiac development in zebrafish embryos

   • Meifang Wu
   • Zhenghong Zuo
   • Chonggang Wang

   OriginalPaper 01 August 2013 Pages: 1200 - 1207

   

4. Carbamazepine-mediated pro-oxidant effects on the unicellular marine algal species Dunaliella tertiolecta and the hemocytes of mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis

   • Pinelopi Tsiaka
   • Vasiliki Tsarpali
   • Stefanos Dailianis

   OriginalPaper 04 August 2013 Pages: 1208 - 1220

   

5. Probabilistic ecological risk assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in southwestern catchments of the Bohai Sea, China

   • Lin Zeng
   • Siyu Zeng
   • Jining Chen

   OriginalPaper 14 August 2013 Pages: 1221 - 1231

   

6. Increased fitness and realized heritability in emamectin benzoate-resistant Chrysoperla carnea (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae)

   • Muhammad Mudassir Mansoor
   • Naeem Abbas
   • Muhammad Razaq

   OriginalPaper 22 August 2013 Pages: 1232 - 1240

   

7. Antioxidant response and histopathological changes in brain tissue of pigeon exposed to avermectin

   • Ming Li
   • Tian-Zi You
   • Shu Li

   OriginalPaper 14 August 2013 Pages: 1241 - 1254

   

8. Ecotoxicity of pp’DDE to Daphnia magna

   • Roberta Bettinetti
   • Valeria Croce
   • Silvana Galassi

   OriginalPaper 25 August 2013 Pages: 1255 - 1263

   

9. The toxicity of silver nanoparticles to zebrafish embryos increases through sewage treatment processes

   • Elke Muth-Köhne
   • Laura Sonnack
   • Martina Fenske

   OriginalPaper 22 August 2013 Pages: 1264 - 1277

   

10. Mercury bioaccumulation and the population dynamics of Mesopodopsis slabberi (Crustacea: Mysidacea) along a mercury contamination gradient

    • M. D’Ambrosio
    • S. C. Marques
    • P. G. Cardoso

    OriginalPaper 28 August 2013 Pages: 1278 - 1288

    

11. Influence of soil organic matter on the sensitivity of selected wild and crop species to common herbicides

    • Jane E. Allison
    • Céline Boutin
    • David Carpenter

    OriginalPaper 31 August 2013 Pages: 1289 - 1302

    

12. Protective role of hydrogen peroxide pretreatment on defense systems and BnMP1 gene expression in Cr(VI)-stressed canola seedlings

    • Mustafa Yıldız
    • Hakan Terzi
    • Nagihan Bingül

    OriginalPaper 21 August 2013 Pages: 1303 - 1312

    

13. A quick investigation of the detrimental effects of environmental pollutant polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon fluoranthene on the photosynthetic efficiency of wheat (Triticum aestivum)

    • Rupal Singh Tomar
    • Anjana Jajoo

    OriginalPaper 25 August 2013 Pages: 1313 - 1318