Selenium bioaccumulation and hazards in a fish community affected by coal fly ash effluent

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 7-15

  Besser, John M ^a   Giesy, John P ^b   Brown, Russell W ^b,d   Buell, Julie M ^b   Dawson, Gary A ^c  

^a National Biological Service   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Consumers Power Company ^*  (United States)

^d NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SELENIUM;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EFFLUENT; FISH; FLY ASH; NONHUMAN; WATER POLLUTANT;

AVES; COLUMBA; ESOX LUCIUS; MAMMALIA; NOTROPIS HUDSONIUS; PERCA FLAVESCENS;

BIOACCUMULATION; FISH COMMUNITY; FLY ASH; SELENIUM;

USA, MICHIGAN, PIGEON LAKE; USA, MICHIGAN, PIGEON RIVER;

EID: 0030251099     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/eesa.1996.0076     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Baumann, P. C., and Gillespie, R. B. (1986). Selenium bioaccumulation in gonads of largemouth bass from three power plant cooling reservoirs. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 5, 695-701.
2. Besser, J. M., Huckins, J. N., Little, E. E., and La Point, T. W. (1989). Distribution and bioaccumulation of selenium in aquatic microcosms. Environ. Pollut. 62, 1-12.
3. Besser, J. M., Canfield, T. J., and La Point, T. W. (1993). Bioaccumulation of organic and inorganic selenium in a laboratory food chain. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 12, 57-72.
4. Boyer, K. W. (1974). Selenium in food, fluorometric method. J. Assoc. Off. Anal. Chem. 57, 368-373.
5. Cleveland, L., Little, E. E., Buckler, D. R., and Wiedmeyer, R. H. (1993). Toxicity and bioaccumulation of waterborne and dietary selenium in juvenile bluegill. Aquat. Toxicol. 27, 265-280.
6. Combs, G. F. (1993). Essentiality and toxicity of selenium with respect to recommended dietary allowances and reference doses. Scand. J. Work Environ. Health 19(Suppl. 1), 119-121.
7. Coyle, J. J., Buckler, D. R., Ingersoll, C. G., Fairchild, J. F., and May, T. W. (1991). Effect of dietary selenium on the reproductive success of bluegills (Lepomis macrochirus). Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 12, 551-565.
8. Crane, M., Flower, T., Holmes, D., and Watson, S. (1992). The toxicity of selenium in experimental freshwater ponds. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 23, 440-452.
9. Cumbie, P. M., and Van Horn, S. (1978). Selenium accumulation associated with fish mortality and reproductive failure. Proc. SE Assoc. Fish Wildlife Agen. 32, 612-624.
10. Cutter, G. A. (1989). An Examination of Selenium Geochemistry in Power Plant Receiving Waters. Final report to Electric Power Research Institute (Project RP-2020-1), Department of Oceanography, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA.
11. Diplock, A. T. (1976). Metabolic aspects of selenium action and toxicity. CRC Crit. Rev. Toxicol. 5, 271-329.
12. El-Begearni, M. M., Ganther, H. E., and Sunde, M. L. (1982). Dietary interaction between methylmercury, selenium, arsenic, and sulfur amino acids in Japanese quail. Poultry Sci. 61, 272-279.
13. Fan, A. M., Book, S. A., Neutral, R. R., and Epstein, D. M. (1988). Selenium and human health implications in California's San Joaquin Valley. J. Toxicol. Environ. Health 23, 539-559.
14. Gillespie, R. B., and Baumann, P. C. (1986). Effects of high tissue concentrations of selenium on reproduction by bluegills. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 115, 208-213.
15. Hamilton, S. J., Palmisano, A. N., Wedemeyer, G. A., and Yasutake, W. T. (1986). Impacts of selenium on early life stages and smoltification of fall chinook salmon. Trans. N. Am. Wildlife Nat. Resour. Conf. 51, 343-356.
16. Hamilton, S. J., Buhl, K. J., Faerber, N. L., Wiedmeyer, R. H., and Bullard, F. A. (1990). Toxicity of organic selenium in the diet to chinook salmon. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 9, 347-358.
17. Hatcher, C. O., Ogewa, R. E., Poe, T. P., and French, J. R. P. (1992). Trace elements in lake sediment, macrozoobenthos, and fish near a coal ash disposal basin. J. Freshwater Ecol. 7, 257-269.
18. Hayes, D. B., and Taylor, W. W. (1990). Reproductive strategy in yellow perch (Perca flavescens): Effects of diet ontogeny, mortality, and survival costs. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 47, 921-927.
19. Heinz, G. H., Hoffman, D. J., Krynitzki, A. J., and Weller, D. M. G. (1987). Reproduction in mallards fed selenium. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 6, 423-433.
20. Heinz, G. H., Huffman, D. J., and Gold, L. G. (1989). Impaired reproduction of mallards fed an organic form of selenium. J. Wildlife Manage. 53, 418-428.
21. Hermanutz, R. O., Allen, K. N., Roush, T. H., and Hedtke, S. F. (1992). Effects of elevated selenium concentrations on bluegills (Lepomis macrochirus) in outdoor experimental streams. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 11, 217-224.
22. Hilton, J. W., Hodson, P. V., and Slinger, S. J. (1980). The requirement and toxicity of selenium in rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri). J. Nutr. 110, 2527-2535.
23. Hodson, P. V., and Hilton, J. W. (1983). The nutritional requirements and toxicity to fish of dietary and waterborne selenium. Environ. Biogeochem. 35, 335-340.
24. Ingersoll, C. G., Dwyer, F. J., and May, T. W. (1990). Toxicity of inorganic and organic selenium to Daphnia magna (Cladocera) and Chironomus riparius (Diptera). Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 9, 1171-1181.
25. Jude, D. J., Rutecki, T. L., Madenjian, C. P., Noguchi, G. E., Schneeberger, P. P., Klinger, S. A., Godun, G. G., and Winnell, M. H. (1981). The Physical, Chemical, and Biological Nature of Pigeon Lake, a Lake Michigan Coastal Lake. Special report No. 78, Great Lakes Research Division, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
26. Lemly, A. D. (1982). Response of juvenile centrarchids to sublethal concentrations of waterborne selenium. I. Uptake, tissue distribution, and retention. Aquat. Toxicol. 2, 235-252.
27. Lemly, A. D. (1993a). Subsurface agricultural irrigation drainage: The need for irrigation. Reg. Toxicol. Pharmacol. 17, 157-180.
28. Lemly, A. D. (1993b). Guidelines for evaluating selenium data from aquatic monitoring and assessment studies. Environ. Monit. Assess. 28, 83-100.
29. Ogle, R. S., and Knight, A. W. (1989). Effects of elevated foodborne selenium on growth and reproduction of the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas). Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 18, 795-803.
30. Paulsson, K., and Lundbergh, K. (1991). Treatment of mercury contaminated fish by selenium addition. Water Air Soil Pollut. 56, 833-841.
31. Peterson, J. A., and Nebeker, A. V. (1992). Estimation of waterborne Se concentrations that are toxicity thresholds for wildlife. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 23, 154-162.
32. Reamer, D. C., and Veillon, C. (1983). Elimination of perchloric acid in digestion of biological fluids for fluorometric determination of selenium. Anal. Chem. 55, 1606-1608.
33. Saiki, M. K., Jennings, M. R., and Brumbaugh, W. G. (1993). Boron, molybdenum, and selenium in aquatic food chains from the lower San Joaquin River and its tributaries, California. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 24, 307-319.
34. SAS Institute (1989). SAS/STAT User's Guide, version 6, 4th ed. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.
35. Schmitt, C. J., and Brumbaugh, W. G. (1990). National contaminant biomonitoring program: Concentrations of arsenic, cadmium, copper, lead, mercury, selenium, and zinc in U.S. freshwater fish, 1976-1984. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 19, 731-747.
36. Shrift, A. (1964). A selenium cycle in nature? Nature 201, 1304-1305.
37. Skorupa, J. P., and Ohlendorf, H. M. (1991). Contaminants in drainage water and avian risk thresholds. In The Economics and Management of Water and Drainage in Agriculture (A. Dinar and D. Zilberman, Eds), pp. 345-368. Kluwer, Amsterdam.
38. Smith, G. J., Heinz, G. H., Huffman, D. J., Spann, J. W., and Krynitsky, A. J. (1988). Reproduction in black-crowned night-herons fed selenium. Lake Reservoir Manage. 4, 175-180.
39. Sorenson, E. M. B., Cumbie, P. M., Bauer, T. L., Bell, J. S., and Harlan, C. W. (1984). Histopathological, hematological, condition-factor, and organ weight changes associated with selenium accumulation in fish from Belews Lake, North Carolina. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 13, 153-162.
40. Southworth, G. R., Peterson, M. J., and Turner, R. R. (1994). Changes in concentrations of selenium and mercury in largemouth bass following elimination of fly ash discharge to a quarry. Arch. Chemosphere 29, 71-80.
41. Suter, G. W. H. (1990). Environmental risk assessment/environmental hazard assessment: Similarities and differences. In Aquatic Toxicology and Risk Assessment: 13th Volume (W. G. Landis and W. H. van der Schalies, Eds.), pp. 5-15. STP 1096, American Society for Testing and Materials, Philadelphia.
42. Taylor, J. K. (1987). Quality Assurance of Chemical Measurements. Lewis Publishers, Chelsea, MI.
43. USEPA (1979). Methods for the Analysis of Water and Wastes. EPA-600/ 4-79-020, Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory, Cincinnati, OH.
44. USEPA (1986). Quality Criteria for Water, 1986. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water Regulations and Standards, Washington, DC.
45. USEPA (1989). Proposed maximum contaminant limit guideline for drinking water: Selenium. Fed. Reg. 54, 22079.
46. USEPA (1994). Guidance for Assessing Chemical Contaminant Data for Use in Fish Advisories. Vol. 2: Risk Assessment and Fish Consumption Limits. EPA-823-B-94-004.
47. Woock, S. E., Garrett, W. R., Partin, W. E., and Bryson, W. T. (1990). Decreased survival and teratogenesis during laboratory selenium exposures to bluegill, Lepomis macrochirus. Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 39, 998-1005.
48. Yang, S. W., Wang, S., and Zhon, R. (1983). Endemic selenium intoxication of humans in China. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 37, 872-881.