Some biological aspects in acoustic contamination

For an appropriate diagnosis of the environmental quality of the aquatic ecosystems, the aspects physic chemicals and biotic should be conjugated and to identify the processes of natural origin and anthropogenic. Any study based on a partial vision that excludes a holistic treatment of the problem, limits the possibilities of interpretation of the data and the quality of the results. The aquatic biota acts as a natural monitor, because it responds in an integral form to the changes under the environmental conditions. Among the procedures for investigation of the biological effects of the deterioration of the quality of the natural waters, the toxicity rehearsals have acquired a growing importance in the last years, like base for the formulation of permissible maximum concentrations. In the aquatic toxicology, the tests of sharp toxicity and chronicle are those most broadly diffused ones. One of the most frequent critics to the rehearsals of sharp toxicity is that the high concentrations of toxic substances employees lower laboratory conditions; they are not common in the natural atmospheres. Nevertheless, these tests allow to locate the main contamination sources and to apply factors for the estimate of levels of security. The approach more employee to evaluate the sharp toxic effects of a xeno-biotic, is the concentration lethal stocking (CL50) For the calculation of the CL50 it has intended several forms that include techniques graphic simple or computational model based on the use of transformations. The procedure more applied in Colombia for the computation of the CL50 is the graphic method of Litchfield - Wilcoxon (1949). Starting from statistical considerations the employment of graphic techniques is not recommended and model computational should only be used that allow the estimate of the intervals of trust of the CL50