Gabriel Melhado

Monash University (Australia) · School of Biological Sciences, Clayton

The production of chemical pesticides poses a critical threat to aquatic ecosystems worldwide, with adverse effects evident even at sublethal concentrations. Historically, ecotoxicologists have ignored an organism’s social context when investigating the effects of pesticide exposure and, instead, have tended to focus on individual-level impacts. Re...

Lead (Pb) is one of the most common metals found in ecosystems in elevated concentrations derived mainly from anthropogenic activities. Pb toxicity is of special concern in birds due to its capacity for bioaccumulation in the liver, bones, and kidneys causing physiological disruptions. Such disruptions can be lethal in a few days after Pb acute int...

Sickness triggers a series of behavioral and physiological processes collectively known as acute phase response (APR). Bats are known as reservoirs of a broad variety of pathogens and the physiological changes resulting from APR activation have been tested predominantly during the resting phase (daytime) in several species exposed to lipopolysaccha...