PMID- 36549223
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20230123
LR  - 20230208
IS  - 1873-6750 (Electronic)
IS  - 0160-4120 (Print)
IS  - 0160-4120 (Linking)
VI  - 171
DP  - 2023 Jan
TI  - Linking freshwater ecotoxicity to damage on ecosystem services in life cycle 
      assessment.
PG  - 107705
LID - S0160-4120(22)00632-8 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.envint.2022.107705 [doi]
LID - 107705
AB  - Freshwater ecosystems provide major benefits to human wellbeing-so-called 
      ecosystem services (ES)-but are currently threatened among others by 
      ecotoxicological pressure from chemicals reaching the environment. There is an 
      increased motivation to incorporate ES in quantification tools that support 
      decision-making, such as life cycle assessment (LCA). However, mechanistic models 
      and frameworks that can systematically translate ecotoxicity effect data from 
      chemical tests into eventual damage on species diversity, functional diversity, 
      and ES in the field are still missing. While current approaches focus on 
      translating predicted ecotoxicity impacts to damage in terms of species loss, no 
      approaches are available in LCA and other comparative assessment frameworks for 
      linking ecotoxicity to damage on ecosystem functioning or ES. To overcome this 
      challenge, we propose a way forward based on evaluating available approaches to 
      characterize damage of chemical pollution on freshwater ES. We first outline an 
      overall framework for linking freshwater ecotoxicity effects to damage on related 
      ES in compliance with the boundary conditions of quantitative, comparative 
      assessments. Second, within the proposed framework, we present possible 
      approaches for stepwise linking ecotoxicity effects to species loss, functional 
      diversity loss, and damage on ES. Finally, we discuss strengths, limitations, and 
      data availability of possible approaches for each step. Although most approaches 
      for directly deriving damage on ES from either species loss or damage to 
      functional diversity have not been operationalized, there are some promising ways 
      forward. The Threshold Indicator Taxa ANalysis (TITAN) seems suitable to 
      translate predicted ecotoxicity effects to a metric of quantitative damage on 
      species diversity. A Trait Probability Density Framework (TPD) approach that 
      incorporates various functional diversity components and functional groups could 
      be adapted to link species loss to functional diversity loss. An Ecological 
      Production Function (EPF) approach seems most promising for further linking 
      functional diversity loss to damage on ES flows for human wellbeing. However, in 
      order to integrate the entire pathway from predicted freshwater ecotoxicity to 
      damage on ES into LCA and other comparative frameworks, the approaches adopted 
      for each step need to be harmonized in terms of assumptions, boundary conditions 
      and consistent interfaces with each other.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.
FAU - Oginah, Susan A
AU  - Oginah SA
AD  - Quantitative Sustainability Assessment, Department of Environmental and Resource 
      Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Produktionstorvet 424, 2800 Kgs. 
      Lyngby, Denmark.
FAU - Posthuma, Leo
AU  - Posthuma L
AD  - National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, PO Box 1, 3720 
      Bilthoven, the Netherlands; Department of Environmental Science, Radboud 
      University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
FAU - Maltby, Lorraine
AU  - Maltby L
AD  - School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United 
      Kingdom.
FAU - Hauschild, Michael
AU  - Hauschild M
AD  - Quantitative Sustainability Assessment, Department of Environmental and Resource 
      Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Produktionstorvet 424, 2800 Kgs. 
      Lyngby, Denmark.
FAU - Fantke, Peter
AU  - Fantke P
AD  - Quantitative Sustainability Assessment, Department of Environmental and Resource 
      Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Produktionstorvet 424, 2800 Kgs. 
      Lyngby, Denmark. Electronic address: pefan@dtu.dk.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Review
DEP - 20221219
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Environ Int
JT  - Environment international
JID - 7807270
SB  - IM
MH  - Humans
MH  - Animals
MH  - *Ecosystem
MH  - *Environmental Pollution
MH  - Ecotoxicology
MH  - Fresh Water/chemistry
MH  - Life Cycle Stages
PMC - PMC9875201
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Chemical toxicity
OT  - Ecosystem functioning
OT  - Functional diversity
OT  - Life cycle impact assessment
OT  - Species diversity
OT  - Species loss
COIS- Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known 
      competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared 
      to influence the work reported in this paper.
EDAT- 2022/12/23 06:00
MHDA- 2023/01/24 06:00
PMCR- 2023/01/01
CRDT- 2022/12/22 18:18
PHST- 2022/08/23 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/12/05 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2022/12/16 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/12/23 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/01/24 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/12/22 18:18 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - S0160-4120(22)00632-8 [pii]
AID - 107705 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.envint.2022.107705 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Int. 2023 Jan;171:107705. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2022.107705. Epub 2022 
      Dec 19.