Synergetic effects caused by TNT-pollutants influencing hormonal regulation.
A greek word with the meaning ”recreate” used to describe synergetic effects of certain pollutants.
When a substance stimulate growth at low conentration and inhibit growth at high concentrations
Remediation is:
The capacity of human celltissue to heal from low-dose exposion to Methylalkaloids
A technical measures to improve environment by e.g. removing pollutants.
Another word for internal loading of pollutants by wheatering or decomposition of polluted organic materia.
Endocrine disruptors are:
Chemicals that cause disturbances in hormonal regulation.
Chemicals that cause disturbances in metabolic regulation.
Chemicals that cause disturbances in neurological transmittors.
Inversion is:
A weather phenomena like a ”lid” preventing vertical mixing of air
An invasion of a pest or weed into a new ecosystem.
The accumulation of photosynthetic energy in leaf cells of plants.
Imposex means:
The mating behaviour among insects with using pheromones.
The masculanization of females caused by pollutants.
The disturbed mating behaviour of male vertebrates caused by pollutants.
Hormono-mimetic pollutants are:
Hormones deactivated by TNT-pollutants and inhibiting pheromone production
Transexual hormones which switch from male to female and vice versa caused by leadpoisoning of the yolk in herring and thus making mating difficult.
Pollutants that enter the organism acting like hormones
What is internal loading?
When a small amount of pollutants loaded to the environment trigger other passive pollutants to become active and thus the polluting effect is enhanced
When pollutants absorbed in an organismen once again is loaded into the environment when the organism dies and is decomposed.
When the effects of pollutants released in the environment is further enhanced by certain characteristics of the environment itself.
What is resilience?
Another word for remediation, e.g. restoration of polluted environments.
A term for natural protection in the environment against effects of pollution, e.g. certain plants that absorb pollutants and thus limit exposition for pollution on other more sensitive organisms.
The capacity of polluted environments to recover to its original state before the pollution occurred.
What is the half-life of the Baltic sea water mass?
