A Review of Grass Shrimp, Palaemonetes spp., as a Bioindicator of Anthropogenic Impacts

摘要: Coastal systems are ecologically important environments due to their diversity and productivity, but they can also serve as sinks for pollutants transported via runoff atmospheric deposition. Grass shrimp, of the genus Palaemonetes, a common inhabitant East Gulf coast estuaries United States proposed in this paper bioindicator human impacts on estuarine systems. Using grass shrimp such would involve entire life cycle consist biomonitoring studies, situ laboratory toxicity tests, development biomarkers exposure. The current interest developing ecological indicators has put renewed relevance research. This reviews based testing, sublethal assessments shows how have laid groundwork be an indicator species. It is concluded that correlating traditional assays with monitoring exposure goa...