Desenvolvimento de metodologia para controle das larvas de Limnoperna fortunei com o uso de radiação ultravioleta e seus impactos sobre Microscystis aeruginosa potencialmente presentes na água superficial

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2011

RESUMO

L. fortunei (Dunker, 1857), commonly known as golden mussel comes from Southeast Asia. It might have been unintentionally introduced in our water sources through ballast water, with the first records in 1991, in Rio de la Plata, near Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America. In Brazil it was first seen in 1998, in Jacuí Delta, opposite Porto Alegre¿s harbor. Besides threatening the biodiversity of ecosystems, this mussel has caused the obstruction of pipes and heat exchangers along the water treatment plants and industries that use raw water for cooling. Treatment plants facing problems with the clogging of mussels also have to contend with the cyanobacterial blooms. The blooms are events of multiplication and accumulation of algae or cyanobacteria in water bodies that can last from a few hours to days or months. The cyanobacteria may release cyanotoxins present mainly in cells and are released upon cell lysis, which occurs primarily by natural senescence. Thus, the aim of study is to adapt a control method of golden mussel larvae (L. fortunei) using ultraviolet radiation and verify its effect on cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins in the water. The experiments were performed in a pilot unit, where known concentrations of mussel larvae were subjected to doses of ultraviolet radiation ranging from 200 to 800 mWs/cm2, and the quality of water used, evaluated. The same conditions tested for the mussels were used in experiments with cyanobacteria. Mussel larvae and raw water used in the experiments were obtained from the Jacuí Delta, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The cyanobacteria Microcystis aeruginosa, witch produces microcystin, was grown in culture in our laboratory. The instantaneous mortality of larvae was approximately 100% with 781mWs/cm2 in test conditions, with LD50 of 324 mWs/cm2. Ecotoxicological tests were performed with Pimephales promelas, Ceriodaphnia dubia, and Selenastrum capricornutum, to detect the presence of byproducts that could cause toxicity to organisms of different trophic levels in the residual water. The results of ecotoxicological evaluation showed no residual toxicity. The data showed to be satisfactory in larvae control, but did not cause lysis in cells of M. aeruginosa and the consequent release of microcystins in the water.

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uv radiation limnoperna fortunei control of larvae radiação ultravioleta cyanobacteria microscystis aeruginosa dose larva : controle cianobactéria

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