Novel approach to ecotoxicological risk assessment of sediments cores around the shipwreck by the use of self-organizing maps

Justyna Rogowska; Błażej Kudłak; Stefan Tsakovski; Lidia Wolska; Vasil Simeonov; Jacek Namieśnik

doi:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2014.03.025

Novel approach to ecotoxicological risk assessment of sediments cores around the shipwreck by the use of self-organizing maps

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Marine and coastal pollution plays an increasingly important role due to recent severe accidents which drew attention to the consequences of oil spills causing widespread devastation of marine ecosystems. All these problems cannot be solved without conducting environmental studies in the area of possible oil spill and performing chemometric evaluation of the data obtained looking for similar patterns among pollutants and optimize environmental monitoring during eventual spills and possible remediation actions – what is the aim of the work presented. Following the chemical and ecotoxicological studies self-organising maps technique has been applied as a competitive learning algorithm based on unsupervised learning process. Summarizing it can be stated that biotests enable assessing the impact of complex chemical mixtures on the organisms inhabiting particular ecosystems. Short and simple application of biotests cannot easily explain the observable toxicity without more complex chemometric evaluation of datasets obtained describing dependence between xenobiotics and toxicological results.

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Justyna Rogowska
- GUM .
Błażej Kudłak dr hab. inż.
Stefan Tsakovski
- University of Sofia Laboratory of Chemometrics and Environmetrics
Lidia Wolska prof. dr hab.
Vasil Simeonov
- University of Sofia Laboratory of Chemometrics and Environmetrics
Jacek Namieśnik prof. dr hab. inż.

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Category:: Articles
Type:: artykuł w czasopiśmie wyróżnionym w JCR
Published in:: ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY no. 104, pages 239 - 246,
ISSN: 0147-6513
Language:: English
Publication year:: 2014
Bibliographic description:: Rogowska J., Kudłak B., Tsakovski S., Wolska L., Simeonov V., Namieśnik J.: Novel approach to ecotoxicological risk assessment of sediments cores around the shipwreck by the use of self-organizing maps// ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY. -Vol. 104, (2014), s.239-246
DOI:: Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2014.03.025
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