Development of a Bioavailability-Based Risk Assessment Framework for Nickel in Southeast Asia and Melanesia

Emily R Garman; Christian E Schlekat; Ellie Middleton; Graham Merrington; Adam Peters; Ross Smith; Jenny L Stauber; Kenneth My Leung; Francesca Gissi; Monique T Binet; Merrin S Adams; Megan L Gillmore; Lisa A Golding; Dianne Jolley; Zhen Wang; Amanda Reichelt-Brushett

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Development of a Bioavailability-Based Risk Assessment Framework for Nickel in Southeast Asia and Melanesia

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Development of a Bioavailability-Based Risk Assessment Framework for Nickel in Southeast Asia and Melanesia

Emily R Garman, Christian E Schlekat, Ellie Middleton, Graham Merrington, Adam Peters, Ross Smith, Jenny L Stauber, Kenneth My Leung, Francesca Gissi, Monique T Binet, …

Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, Vol.17(4), pp.802-813

06/01/2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.4384

PMID: 33404201

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Metals risk assessment

Nickel

Tropical risk assessment

Bioavailability-based approaches

Environmental management

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Nickel laterite ore deposits are becoming increasingly important sources of Ni for the global marketplace and are found mainly in tropical and subtropical regions, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Cuba, and New Caledonia. There are few legislatively derived standards or guidelines for the protection of aquatic life for Ni in many of these tropical regions, and bioavailability-based environmental risk assessment (ERA) approaches for metals have mainly been developed and tested in temperate regions, such as the United States and Europe. This paper reports on a multi-institutional, 5-y testing program to evaluate Ni exposure, effects, and risk characterization in the Southeast Asia and Melanesia (SEAM) region, which includes New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, and Indonesia. Further, we have developed an approach to determine if the individual components of classical ERA, including effects assessments, exposure assessments, and risk characterization methodologies (which include bioavailability normalization), are applicable in this region. A main conclusion of this research program is that although ecosystems and exposures may be different in tropical systems, ERA paradigms are constant. A large chronic ecotoxicity data set for Ni is now available for tropical species, and the data developed suggest that tropical ecosystems are not uniquely sensitive to Ni exposure; hence, scientific support exists for combining tropical and temperate data sets to develop tropical environmental quality standards (EQSs). The generic tropical database and tropical exposure scenarios generated can be used as a starting point to examine the unique biotic and abiotic characteristics of specific tropical ecosystems in the SEAM region. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2021;00:1-12. © 2021 The Authors. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry (SETAC).

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Title: Development of a Bioavailability-Based Risk Assessment Framework for Nickel in Southeast Asia and Melanesia
Creators: Emily R Garman - NiPERA Inc., Durham, North Carolina, USA
Christian E Schlekat - NiPERA Inc., Durham, North Carolina, USA
Ellie Middleton - NiPERA Inc., Durham, North Carolina, USA
Graham Merrington - wca, Faringdon, Oxon, United Kingdom
Adam Peters - wca, Faringdon, Oxon, United Kingdom
Ross Smith - Hydrobiology, Brisbane, Australia
Jenny L Stauber - CSIRO Land and Water, Lucas Heights, New South Wales, Australia
Kenneth My Leung - State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution and Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
Francesca Gissi - School of Earth, Atmosphere and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Monique T Binet - CSIRO Land and Water, Lucas Heights, New South Wales, Australia
Merrin S Adams - CSIRO Land and Water, Lucas Heights, New South Wales, Australia
Megan L Gillmore - School of Earth, Atmosphere and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Lisa A Golding - CSIRO Land and Water, Lucas Heights, New South Wales, Australia
Dianne Jolley - School of Earth, Atmosphere and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Zhen Wang - Institute of Marine Sciences and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology, Shantou University, Shantou, China
Amanda Reichelt-Brushett - Marine Ecology Research Centre, School of Environment, Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Lismore, New South Wales, Australia
Publication Details: Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, Vol.17(4), pp.802-813
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; United States
Identifiers: 991012922199502368
Copyright: This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Academic Unit: Science; Faculty of Science and Engineering
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

Development of a Bioavailability-Based Risk Assessment Framework for Nickel in Southeast Asia and Melanesia

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