Zhang Xuelei
Key Lab for Science and Engineering of Marine Ecological Environment, First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Qingdao 266061, China.
ScientificWorldJournal. 2002 Feb 22;2:492-6. doi: 10.1100/tsw.2002.123.
Many marine coastal ecosystems are threatened by increasing waste discharge, and bioassays are needed because chemical and physical tests alone are not sufficient to assess potential effects on aquatic biota. In light of the fact that larval metamorphosis of benthic invertebrates is usually very sensitive to environmental changes, this paper reviews sensitivity comparisons of larval metamorphosis with other common bioassays in different species and those in different developmental stages of the same species, and it discusses the potential use of larval metamorphosis as an indicator of marine environmental quality.
许多海洋沿岸生态系统正受到日益增加的废物排放的威胁，由于仅靠化学和物理测试不足以评估对水生生物群的潜在影响，因此需要生物测定法。鉴于底栖无脊椎动物的幼体变态通常对环境变化非常敏感，本文综述了不同物种以及同一物种不同发育阶段幼体变态与其他常见生物测定法的敏感性比较，并讨论了幼体变态作为海洋环境质量指标的潜在用途。
