Project information
Interactions among the chemicals, environment and biological systems and their consequences on the global, regional and local scales (INCHEMBIOL)
(INCHEMBIOL)
- Project Identification
- MSM0021622412
- Project Period
- 1/2005 - 12/2011
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR
- Research Intents
- MU Faculty or unit
- Faculty of Science
- Keywords
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Basic objective of the research plan is complex approach to study of interactions among chemical compounds present in environmental compartments and their biological effects, study of the fate of mainly persistent chemical compounds in the environment, their effects on the environment and living organisms including human.
Fate in this concept consists of a summary of transport (from their input in the environment, transport within the environmental compartment, where they are discharged, transport among compartments and long-range transport in the environment) and transformation processes (abiotic and biotic transformations). It also includes study of distribution equilibriums, properties conditioning their environmental behaviour, study of the transformation processes and their products.
This complex approach is a part of long-term research activities of the centre RECETOX. It is based on exploration of the causality among chemical (presence of chemical compounds in the environment) and biological (mechanisms of effects on the living organisms) part of the problem of chemical contamination of the environment.
This complex approach requires interdisciplinary, team collaboration of specialists from number of natural sciences and is very demanding on equipment and financial sources.
The submitted research plan concentrates on acquirement of new scientific information and experimental data concerned with problem of chemical contamination of the environment with persistent, toxic compounds (persistent, organic pollutants, heavy metals, organometallic compounds). It is necessary to distinguish this contamination from natural migration of the compounds in atmosphere, biosphere and geosphere, and also study its interactions within these environmental spheres.
The basic objective of the research plan is characterization of fate and negative effects of chemical compounds in real ecosystems by interconnection of a few scientific disciplines studying:
chemical compounds in the environment - fate - transport and transformation, distribution in and among compartments; their determination in different abiotic and biotic environmental components,
abiotic processes in the environment - differentiation and migration of the compounds in the atmosphere and geosphere - geology, geochemistry, paleontology and climatology
effects of chemical compounds on living organisms – biochemical toxicology, genotoxicology, ecotoxicology, ecological epidemiology;
ecologic and human risks combining knowledge of more disciplines for quantification of existing risks
Results
Publications
Total number of publications: 1717
2006
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Subsolidus evolution of Jihlava ultrapotassic pluton, evidence from the study of secondary minerals.
Mineralogica Polonica, year: 2006, volume: 28, edition: 1
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Summary of available knowledge on POPs toxicity in earthworm ecotoxicology
Book of Abstracts of Soil Protection strategy – needs and approaches for policy support, year: 2006
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Supergene Y, REE minerals from the Medvědín deposit, the Krkonoše (Giant) Mts., Czech Repulic
Mineralogica Polonica, year: 2006, volume: 28, edition: 1
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SURVEY OF PROCEDURES FOR PELLET PREPARATION OF POWDERED ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES WITH REGARD TO LASER-ASSISTED PLASMA SPECTROSCOPY ANALYSIS
VII EFS and XII SSC, year: 2006
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Tectonometamorphic evolution of the Svratka Crystalline Complex (NE Bohemian Massif): Evidence for wrench-dominated transpression along the NE margin of the Variscan orogene root
Year: 2006, type: Conference abstract
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Tectonostratigraphic development of the Devonian and Carboniferous in the Brunovistulian terrane, Czech Republic
Carboniferous Conference Cologne. From Platform to Basin, Sept. 4-10 2006. Kölner Forum für Geologie und Paläontologie, 15., year: 2006
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Temporal and spatial variability of hailstorms in Moravia and Silesia (Czech Republic) in the 19th-20th centuries
Year: 2006, type: Conference abstract
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Terrestrial and Marine Faunas from the Miocene Deposits of the Mokrá Plateau (Drahany Upland, Czech Republic) - Impact on Palaeogeography
Beiträge zur Paläontologie, year: 2006, volume: 30, edition: -
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The 5th International Conference on Reservoir Limnology and Water Quality "Reservoirs - establishing the balance between human use and biotic integrity"
Year: 2006, type: Conference
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The black box of stress analysis based on calcite twinning
Year: 2006, type: Conference abstract