Metals in benthic macrofauna and biogeochemical factors affecting their trophic transfer to wild fish around fish farm cages

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 470-471, Issue , 2014, Pages 742-753

  Kalantzi, I ^a   Papageorgiou, N ^a   Sevastou, K ^a,b   Black, K D ^c   Pergantis, S A ^a   Karakassis, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^c SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Functional traits; Geochemistry; Macrofauna; Metals; Tolerance; Trophic chain

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; FISH; FITS AND TOLERANCES; GEOCHEMISTRY; METALS; POLLUTION; REFRACTORY METALS; SEDIMENTS;

BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES; ELEMENTAL CONCENTRATIONS; FUNCTIONAL TRAITS; GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; MACROFAUNA; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC; REFRACTORY ORGANIC MATTER; TROPHIC CHAINS;

CADMIUM;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHLOROPHYLL A; MERCURY; METAL; ORGANIC MATTER; PHOSPHORUS; SODIUM; SULFIDE; ZINC;

BENTHOS; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHLOROPHYLL A; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FARM; FAUNA; FISH; MACROINVERTEBRATE; METAL; MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC MATTER; TOLERANCE; TROPHIC LEVEL; ZOOBENTHOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BENTHIC FAUNA; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BONE TISSUE; CAGE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DEMERSAL FISH; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; GILL; GONAD; GRAIN; INTESTINE; LIVER; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METAL METABOLISM; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOMACH; STOMACH CONTENT; TISSUE LEVEL; TROPHIC LEVEL; WILD TYPE;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

INVERTEBRATA;

FUNCTIONAL TRAITS; GEOCHEMISTRY; MACROFAUNA; METALS; TOLERANCE; TROPHIC CHAIN;

ANIMALS; AQUACULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; INVERTEBRATES; METALS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84886854539     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.020     Document Type: Article

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