Aquatic Animals in Environmental Monitoring

Aquatic animals play a crucial role in environmental monitoring by serving as sensitive biological indicators of water quality and ecosystem health. Due to their close and continuous contact with aquatic environments, aquatic organisms can reflect the presence of pollutants, toxicants, and other ecological disturbances through changes in their physiology, behavior, and population dynamics. Biomonitoring using aquatic animals enables both long-term ecological assessments and real-time detection of pollution. Altogether, aquatic animals provide a cost-effective, integrative, and ecologically relevant approach to safeguarding water environments and supporting environmental risk assessments.