Mercury-contaminated sediments affect amphipod feeding

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 437-443

  Bundschuh, Mirco ^a   Zubrod, Jochen P ^a   Seitz, Frank ^a   Newman, Michael C ^b   Schulz, Ralf ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^b VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

AMPHIPOD; BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MERCURY (ELEMENT); RIVER POLLUTION; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SEDIMENT PROPERTY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

AMPHIPODA; ARTICLE; FEEDING; HYALELLA AZTECA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SEDIMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALS; CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MERCURY; VIRGINIA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

SOUTH RIVER [VIRGINIA]; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

HYALELLA AZTECA;

EID: 79955930818     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-010-9566-6     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Altman DG, Machin D, Bryant TN, Gardner MJ (2000) Statistics with confidence, 2nd ed. Br Med J Books
2. Baun A, Hartmann NB, Grieger K, Kusk KO (2008a) Ecotoxicity of engineered nanoparticles to aquatic invertebrates: a brief review and recommendations for future toxicity testing. Ecotoxicology 17:387-395
3. Baun A, Sorensen SN, Rasmussen RF, Hartmann NB, Koch CB (2008b) Toxicity and bioaccumulation of xenobiotic organic compounds in the presence of aqueous suspensions of aggregates of nano-C-60. Aquat Toxicol 86:379-387
4. Bergeron CM, Husak JF, Unrine JM, Romanek CS, Hopkins WA (2007) Influence of feeding ecology on blood mercury concentrations in four species of turtles. Environ Toxicol Chem 26:1733-1741 (Pubitemid 47265518)
5. Borgmann U, Norwood WP (1997a) Assessing the toxicity of lead in sediments to Hyalella azteca: the significance of bioaccumulation and dissolved metal. Can J Fish Aquat Sci 56:1494-1503 (Pubitemid 30610656)
6. Borgmann U, Norwood WP (1997b) Toxicity and accumulation of zinc and copper in Hyalella azteca exposed to metal-spiked sediments. Can J Fish Aquat Sci 54:1046-1054 (Pubitemid 27372524)
7. Borgmann U, Norwood WP, Clarke C (1993) Accumulation, regulation and toxicity of copper, zinc, lead and mercury in Hyalella azteca. Hydrobiologia 259:79-89 (Pubitemid 24413291)
8. Bousfield EI (1958) Fresh-water amphipod crustaceans of glaciated North America. Can Field Nat 72:55-113
9. Bundschuh M, Zubrod JP, Schulz R (submitted) The functional and physiological status of Gammarus fossarum (Crustacea; Amphipoda) exposed to secondary treated wastewater. Environ Pollut
10. Carter LJ (1977) Chemical plants leave unexpected legacy for two Virginia rivers. Science 198:1015-1020
11. DiStefano J (2004) A confidence interval approach to data analysis. For Ecol Manag 187:173-183
12. Gorski PR, Cleckner LB, Hurley JP, Sierszen ME, Armstrong DE (2003) Factors affecting enhanced mercury bioaccumulation in inland lakes of Isle Royal National Park, USA. Sci Total Environ 304:327-348 (Pubitemid 36344102)
13. Hargrave BT (1970) The utilization of benthic microflora by Hyalella azteca (Amphipoda). J Anim Ecol 39:427-437
14. Hargrave BT (1972) Prediction of egestion by the deposit-feeding amphipod Hyalella azteca. Oikos 23:116-124
15. Helsel DR (2005) More than obvious: Better methods for interpreting nondetect data. Environ Sci Technol 39:419A-423A
16. Kemble NE, Hardesty DG, Ingersoll CG, Johnson BT, Dwyer FJ, MacDonald DD (2000) An evaluation of the toxicity of contaminated sediments from Waukegan Harbor, Illinois, following remediation. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 39:452-461
17. Lawrence AL, Mason RP (2001) Factors controlling the bioaccumulation of mercury and methylmercury by the estuarine amphipod Leptocheirus plumulosus. Environ Pollut 111:217-231
18. Lee L (2009) NADA: Nondetects and data analysis for environmental data.Rpackage version 1.5-2.Available at: http://CRAN.R-project.org/package= NADA. Accessed 18 March 2010
19. Lemon J, Bolker B, Oom S, Klein E, Rowlingson B, Wickham H, et al. (2009) Plotrix: Various plotting functions. R package version 2.7-2. Available at: http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=plotrix. Accessed 21 March 2010
20. Maltby L, Clayton SA, Yu H, McLoughlin N, Wood RM, Yin D (2000) Using single-species toxicity tests, community-level response and toxicity identification evaluations to investigate effluent impacts. Environ Toxicol Chem 19:151-157 (Pubitemid 30010441)
21. Maltby L, Clayton SA, Wood RM, McLoughlin N (2002) Evaluation of the Gammarus pulex in situ feeding assay as a biomonitor of water quality: robustness, responsiveness and relevance. Environ Toxicol Chem 21:361-368 (Pubitemid 34074044)
22. Menzie CA (2010) Combining engineering and biology in a lowimpact in situ treatment system for sediments: Application to mercury. Available at: http://www.menziecura.com/. Accessed 28 September 2009
23. Mergler D, Anderson HA, Hing Man Chan L, Mahaffey KR, Murray M, Sakamoto M et al (2007) Methylmercury exposure and health effects in humans: a worldwide concern. Ambio 36:3-11 (Pubitemid 46587110)
24. Nakagawa S, Cuthill IC (2007) Effect size, confidence interval and statistical significance: a practical guide for biologists. Biol Rev 82:591-605 (Pubitemid 47609922)
25. Neil LL, McCullough CD, Lund MA, Evans LH, Tsvetnenko Y (2009) Toxicity of acid mine pit lake water remediated with limestone and phosphorus. Ecotoxicol Environ Safety 72:2046-2057
26. Neumann PTM, Borgmann U, Norwood W (1999) Effect of gut clearance on metal body concentrations in Hyalella azteca. Environ Toxicol Chem 18:976-984 (Pubitemid 29186253)
27. Newman MC (2008) "What exactly are you inferring?" A closer look at hypothesis testing. Environ Toxicol Chem 27:1013-1019
28. Perneger TV (1998) What's wrong with Bonferroni adjustments? Br Med J 316:1236-1238
29. Scheuhammer AM, Meyer MW, Sandheinrich MB, Murray MW (2007) Effects of environmental methylmercury on the health of wild birds, mammals, and fish. Ambio 36:12-18 (Pubitemid 46587111)
30. R Development Core Team (2009) R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. Available at: http://www.R-project.org. Accessed 19 March 2010
31. Tom KR, Newman MC, Schmerfeld J (2010) Modeling mercury biomagnification (South River, Virginia, USA) to inform river management decision making. Environ Toxicol Chem 29:1013-1020
32. Winger PV, Lasier PJ, Geitner H (1993) Toxicity of sediments and pore-water from Brunswick Estuary, Georgia. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 25:371-376 (Pubitemid 23253889)