Patterns of metal bioaccumulation in two filter-feeding macroinvertebrates: Exposure distribution, inter-species differences and variability across developmental stages

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 2795-2806

  Cid, Núria ^a,c   Ibáñez, Carles ^a   Palanques, Albert ^b   Prat, Narcís ^c  

^a IRTA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bioaccumulation; Ebro River; Ephoron virgo; Heavy metals; Hydropsyche; Life cycle

Indexed keywords

ALL METAL; AQUATIC INSECTS; DEVELOPMENT STAGES; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EBRO RIVER; EPHORON VIRGO; EXPOSURE DISTRIBUTION; FILTER-FEEDERS; FILTER-FEEDING; FOOD CHAIN; HG CONCENTRATIONS; HG POLLUTION; HIGH CONCENTRATION; INTERSPECIFIC DIFFERENCES; MACROINVERTEBRATES; METAL BIOACCUMULATION; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; METAL POLLUTION; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; POLLUTED SEDIMENTS; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SEXUAL DIFFERENCES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STEADY STATE; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTERS;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CADMIUM; CHEMICAL PLANTS; CHEMICALS; CHROMIUM; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ECOSYSTEMS; FEEDING; LEAD; LIFE CYCLE; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MERCURY (METAL); METALS; POLLUTION; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; ZINC;

RIVER POLLUTION;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MANGANESE; MERCURY; NICKEL; TITANIUM; ZINC;

BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FILTER FEEDING; HEAVY METAL; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PERSISTENCE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FILTER FEEDER; FOOD CHAIN; INSECT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STEADY STATE; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INSECTS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; METALS, HEAVY; PARTICLE SIZE; RIVERS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPAIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EBRO RIVER; SPAIN;

EPHORON VIRGO; HEXAPODA; HYDROPSYCHE; HYDROPSYCHE EXOCELLATA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 77952553229     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.03.030     Document Type: Article

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