Factors affecting biotic mercury concentrations and biomagnification through lake food webs in the Canadian high Arctic

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 509-510, Issue , 2015, Pages 195-205

  Lescord, Gretchen L ^a   Kidd, Karen A ^a   Kirk, Jane L ^b   O'Driscoll, Nelson J ^c   Wang, Xiaowa ^b   Muir, Derek C G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic char; Biomagnification; Food web; Mercury; Principal component analysis; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BIOCHEMISTRY; CARBON; CATCHMENTS; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; ECOLOGY; HYDROCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; LAKE POLLUTION; LAKES; MICROCOMPUTERS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ARCTIC CHAR; BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; BIOMAGNIFICATION; FOOD WEBS; MERCURY CONCENTRATIONS; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; STABLE ISOTOPES;

MERCURY (METAL);

CARBON 13; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN 15; PHOSPHORUS; WATER POLLUTANT;

BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOTIC FACTOR; CARBON ISOTOPE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOOD WEB; LAKE WATER; MERCURY (ELEMENT); NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STABLE ISOTOPE; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIOAVAILABILITY; CANADA; CATCHMENT; CHAR; CHIRONOMIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; FOOD WEB; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PELAGIC SPECIES; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PREDICTION; TROPHIC LEVEL; ZOOPLANKTON; ANIMAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CHAIN; LAKE; METABOLISM; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARCTIC; CANADA; CORNWALLIS ISLAND; NUNAVUT; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS; RESOLUTE BAY;

CHIRONOMIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; SALVELINUS ALPINUS;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ARCTIC REGIONS; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CHAIN; LAKES; MERCURY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84922330477     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.04.133     Document Type: Article

References (77)

1. Antoniades D., Michelutti N., Quinlan R., Blais J.M., Bonilla S., Douglas M.S.V., et al. Cultural eutrophication, anoxia, and ecosystem recovery in Meretta Lake, High Arctic Canada. Limnol Oceanogr 2011, 56:639-650.
2. Atwell L., Hobson K., Welch H.E. Biomagnification and bioaccumulation of mercury in an Arctic marine food web: insights from stable nitrogen isotope analysis. Can J Fish Aquat Sci 1998, 55:1114.
3. Bloom N., Fitzgerald W.F. Determination of volatile mercury species at the pictogram level by low-temperature gas chromatography with cold-vapour atomic fluorescence detection. Anal Chim Acta 1988, 208:151-161.
4. Bodaly R.A., Rudd J.W., Flett R.J. Effect of urban sewage treatment on total and methyl mercury concentrations in effluents. Biogeochem 1998, 40:279-291.
5. Borgå K., Kidd K.A., Muir D.C.G., Berglund O., Conder J.M., Gobas F.A.P.C., et al. Trophic magnification factors: considerations of ecology, ecosystems, and study design. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2012, 8:64-84.
6. Burnham K.P., Anderson D.R. Multimodel inference - understanding AIC and BIC in model selection. Sociol Methods Res 2004, 33:261-304.
7. Campbell L.M., Norstrom R.J., Hobson K.A., Muir D.C.G., Backus S., Fisk A.T. Mercury and other traces elements in a pelagic Arctic marine food web (Northwater Polynya, Baffin Bay). Sci Total Environ 2004, 247-263:351-352.
8. Chambers P.A., Allard M., Walker S.L., Marsalek J., Lawrence J., Servos M., et al. The impact of municipal wastewater effluents on Canadian waters; a review. Water Qual Res J Can 1997, 32:659-713.
9. Chasar L.C., Scudder B.C., Stewart A.R., Bell A.H., Aiken G.R. Mercury cycling in stream ecosystems 3. Trophic dynamics and methylmercury bioaccumulation. Environ Sci Technol 2009, 43:2733-2739.
10. Chase A., Gerbig, Ryan J.N., Aiken G.R. The effects of dissolved organic matter on mercury biogeochemistry. Environmental chemistry and toxicology of mercury 2012, Chapter 8, John Wiley and Sons.
11. Chen C.Y., Stemberger R.S., Kamman N.C., Mayes B.M., Folt C.L. Patterns of Hg bioaccumulation and transfer in aquatic food webs across multi-lake studies in the northeast US. Ecotoxicology 2004, 14:135-147.
12. Chételat J., Amyot M. Elevated methylmercury in High Arctic Daphnia and the role of productivity in controlling their distribution. Glob Chang Biol 2009, 15:706-718.
13. Chételat J., Amyot M., Cloutier L., Poulain A. Metamorphosis in chironomids, more than mercury supply, controls methylmercury transfer to fish in High Arctic lakes. Environ Sci Technol 2008, 42:9110-9115.
14. Chételat J., Cloutier L., Amyot M. Carbon sources for lake food webs in the Canadian High Arctic and other regions of Arctic North America. Polar Biol 2010, 33:1111-1123.
15. 15N ratio during growth of a High Arctic copepod. Freshw Biol 2012, 57:1228-1240.
16. Choi M.H., Cech J.J., Lagunas-Solar M.C. Bioavailability of methylmercury to Sacramento Blackfish (Orthodon micrlepidotus): dissolved organic carbon effects. Environ Toxicol Chem 1998, 17:695-701.
17. Chumchal M.M., Rainwater T.R., Osborn S.C., Roberts A.P., Abel M.T., Cobb G.P., et al. Mercury speciation and biomagnification in the food webs of Caddo Lake, Texas and Louisiana, US, a subtropical freshwater ecosystem. Environ Toxicol Chem 2011, 30:1153-1162.
18. Clayden M.G., Kidd K.A., Wyn B., Kirk J., Muir D.C.G., O'Driscoll N. Mercury biomagnification through food webs is affected by physical and chemical characteristics of lakes. Environ Sci Technol 2013, 21:12047-12053.
19. Daguené V., McFall E., Yumvihoze E., Xiang S., Amyot M., Poulain A.J. Divalent base ions hamper Hg(II) uptake. Environ Sci Technol 2012, 46:6645-6653.
20. Douglas T.A., Loseto L.L., Macdonald B.R.W., Poulain E.A., Amyot F.M., Barkay T., et al. The fate of mercury in Arctic terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, a review. Environ Chem 2012, 9:321-355.
21. Eckley C.S., Hintelmann H. Determination of mercury methylation potentials in the water column of lakes across Canada. Sci Total Environ 2006, 368:111-125. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.09.04.
22. Edmonds S.T., Evers D.C., Cristol D., Mettke-Hofmann C., Powell L.L., McGann A.J., et al. Geographic and seasonal variation in mercury exposure of the declining rusty blackbird. Condor 2010, 112:789-799.
23. Edmonds S.T., O'Driscoll N.J., Hiller N.K., Atwood J.L., Evers D.C. Factors regulating the bioavailability of methylmercury to breeding rusty blackbirds in northeastern wetlands. Environ Pollut 2012, 171:148-154.
24. Evans M.S., Muir D.G.C., Lockhart W.L., Stern G., Ryan M., Roach P. Persistent organic pollutants and metals in the freshwater biota of the Canadian Subarctic and Arctic: an overview. Sci Total Environ 2005, 94-147:351-352.
25. Gantner N., Power M., Babaluk J.A., Reist J.D., Kock G., Lockhart L.W., et al. Temporal trends of mercury, cesium, potassium, selenium, and thallium in Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) from Lake Hazen, Nunavut, Canada: effects of trophic position, size, and age. Environ Toxicol Chem 2009, 28:254-263.
26. Gantner N., Muir D.C.G., Power M., Iqaluk D., Reist J.D., Babaluk J., et al. Mercury concentrations in landlocked Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) from the Canadian Arctic. Part I: insights from trophic relationships in 18 lakes. Environ Toxicol Chem 2010, 29:621-632.
27. Gantner N., Muir D.C.G., Power M., Iqaluk D., Reist J.D., Babaluk J., et al. Mercury concentrations in landlocked Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) from the Canadian Arctic. Part II: influence of lake biotic and abiotic characteristics on geographic trends in 27 populations. Environ Toxicol Chem 2010, 29:633-643.
28. Gantner N., Villette J., Michaud W.K., Bajno R., Muir D.G.C., Bincint W.F., et al. Physical and biological factors affecting mercury and perfluorinated contaminants in Arctic char. Arctic 2012, 29:633-643.
29. Graham M.H. Confronting multicollinearity in ecological multiple regression. Ecology 2003, 84:2809-2815.
30. Hall B.D., Bodaly R.A., Fudge R.J.P., Rudd J.W.M., Rosenberg D.M. Food as the dominant pathway of methylmercury uptake by fish. Water Air Soil Pollut 1997, 100:13-24.
31. Hammerschmidt C.R., Fitzgerald W.F. Photodecomposition of methylmercury in an Arctic Alaskan lake. Environ Sci Technol 2006, 40:1212-1216.
32. Hammerschmidt C.R., Fitzgerald W.F. Iron-mediated photochemical decomposition of methylmercury in an Arctic Alaskan lake. Environ Sci Technol 2010, 44:6138-6143.
33. Health Canada Human health risk assessment of mercury in fish and health benefits of fish consumption 2007, Bureau of Chemical Safety Food Directorate Health Products and Food Branch, [Accessed online: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/pubs/mercur/merc_fish_poisson-eng.php].
34. Hrenchuk L.E., Blanchfield P.J., Paterson M.J., Hintelmann H.H. Dietary and waterborne mercury accumulation by yellow perch: a field experiment. Envion Sci Technol 2012, 45:509-516.
35. Jardine T.D., Kidd K.A., Fisk A.T. Applications, considerations, and sources of uncertainty when using stable isotope analysis in ecotoxicology. Environ Sci Technol 2006, 40:7501-7511.
36. Kidd K.A., Batchelar K. Mercury. Homeostasis and toxicology of non-essential metals 2012, 31B:237-295. Chapter 5, Elsevier Incorporated.
37. Kidd K.A., Muir D.C.G., Evans M.S., Wang X., Whittle M., Swanson H.K., et al. Biomagnification of mercury through lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) food webs of lake with different physical, chemical and biological characteristics. Sci Total Environ 2012, 135-43:438.
38. Kim M.-K., Zoh K.-D. Effects of natural water constituents on the photo-decomposition of methylmercury and the role of hydroxyl radical. Sci Total Environ 2013, 95-101:449.
39. Kirk J.L., St Louis V.L. Multiyear total and methyl mercury exports from two major sub-Arctic rivers draining into Judson Bay, Canada. Environ Sci Technol 2009, 43:2254-2261.
40. Kwon S.Y., McIntyre P.B., Flecker A.S., Campbell L.M. Mercury biomagnification in the food webs of a neotropical stream. Sci Total Environ 2012, 92-7:417-418.
41. Lavoie R.A., Jardine T.D., Chumchal M.M., Kidd K.A., Campbell L.M. Biomagnification of mercury in aquatic food webs: a worldwide meta-analysis. Environ Sci Technol 2013, 10.1021/es403103t.
42. Leech N.L., Barrett K.C., Morgan G.A. SPSS for intermediate statistics: use and interpretation 2008, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. 3rd ed.
43. Lehnherr I., St.Louis V.L., Kirk J.L. Methylmercury cycling in high Arctic wetland ponds: sources and sinks. Environ Sci Technol 2012, 46:10514-10522.
44. Lehnherr I., St.Louis V.L., Kirk J.L. Methylmercury cycling in high Arctic wetland ponds: controls on sedimentary production. Environ Sci Technol 2012, 46:10523-10531.
45. Loseto L.L., Lean D.R.S., Siciliano S.D. Snowmelt sources of methylmercury to high Arctic ecosystems. Environ Sci Technol 2004, 38:3004-3010.
46. Marusczak N., Larose C., Dommergue A., Yumvihoze E., Lean D., Nediai R., et al. Total mercury and methylmercury in high altitude surface snow from the French Alps. Sci Total Environ 2011, 409:3949-3954.
47. Mattieu C.A., Furl C.V., Roberts T.M., Friese M. Spatial trends and factors affecting mercury bioaccumulation in freshwater fishes of Washington State, USA. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 2013, 65:122-131.
48. Muir D.C.G., Wang X., Bright D., Lockhart L., Köck G. Spatial and temporal trends of mercury and other metals in landlocked char from lakes in the Canadian Arctic archipelago. Sci Total Environ 2005, 351-52:464-478.
49. Muir D.C.G., Wang X., Nguyen N., Jackson T.A., Evans M.S., Douglas M., et al. Spatial trends and historical deposition of mercury in Eastern and Northern Canada inferred from lake sediment cores. Environ Sci Technol 2009, 43:4802-4809.
50. Natural Resources Canada (NRC) Atlas of Canada Accessed online:. http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/topo/map?layers.
51. O'Driscoll N.J., Rencz A.N., Lean D.R.S. The biogeochemistry and fate of mercury in natural environments. Metal ions in biological systems 2004, vol. 43. Chapter 14, Marcel Dekker, Inc.
52. O'Driscoll N.J., Evans R.D. Analysis of methyl mercury binding to freshwater humic and fulvic acids by gel permeation chromatography/hydride generation ICP-MS. Environ Sci Technol 2000, 34:4039-4043.
53. Peterson S.A., Van Sickle J., Hughes R.M., Schacher J.A., Echols S.F. A biopsy procedure for determining fliet and predicting whole-fish mercury concentration. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 2005, 48:99-107.
54. Pett M.A., Lackey N.R., Sullivan J.J. Making sense of factor analysis: the use of factor analysis for instrument development in health care research 2003, Sage Publications.
55. Phillips D.L., Gregg J.W. Source partitioning using stable isotopes: coping with too many sources. Oecologia 2003, 136:261-269.
56. Post D.M. Using stable isotopes to estimate trophic position: models, methods, and assumptions. Ecology 2002, 83:703-718.
57. Power M., Klein G.M., Guiguer K.R.R.A., Kwan M.K.H. Mercury accumulation in the fish community of a sub-Arctic lake in relation to trophic position and carbon sources. J Appl Ecol 2002, 39:819-830.
58. Ravichandran M. Interactions between mercury and dissolved organic matter - a review. Chemosphere 2004, 55:319-331.
59. Rizzo A., Arcagni M., Arribére M.A., Bubach D., Guevara S.R. Mercury in the biotic compartments of Northwest Patagonia lakes, Argentina. Chemosphere 2011, 70-9:84.
60. Schaefer J.K., Morel M.M. High methylation rates of mercury bound to cysteine by Geobacter sulfurreducens. Nat Geosci 2009, 2:123-127.
61. Schindler D.W., Kalff J., Wlech H.E., Brunskil G.J., Kling H., Kritsch N. Eutrophication in High Arctic-Meretta Lake - Cornwallis Island (75 Degrees N Lat). J Fish Res Board Can 1974, 31:647-662.
62. Scott R.W., Barton D.R., Evans M.S., Keating J.J. Latitudinal gradients and local control of aquatic insect richness in a large river system in northern Canada. J N Am Benthol Soc 2011, 30:621-634.
63. Semkin R.G., Mierle G., Neureuther R.J. Hydrochemistry and mercury cycling in a high Arctic watershed. Sci Total Environ 2005, 199-221:342.
64. Steffen A., Douglas T., Amyot M., Ariya P., Aspmo K., Berg T., et al. A synthesis of atmospheric mercury depletion event chemistry in the atmosphere and snow. Atmos Chem Phys 2008, 8:1445.
65. Swanson H.K., Kidd K.A. Mercury concentrations in Arctic food fishes reflect the presence of anadromous Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus), species, and life history. Environ Sci Technol 2010, 44:3286-3292.
66. Swanson H.K., Kidd K.A., Babaluk J.A., Wastle R.J., Yang P.P., Halden N.M., et al. Anadromy in Arctic populations of lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush): otolith microchemistry, stable isotopes, and comparisons with Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus). Can J Fish Aquat Sci 2010, 67:842-853.
67. Swanson H.K., Gantner N., Kidd K.A., Muir D.C.G., Reist J.D. Comparison of mercury concentrations in landlocked, resident, and sea-run fish (Salvelinus spp.) from Nunavut, Canada. Environ Toxicol Chem 2011, 30:1459-1467.
68. Todorova S.G., Driscoll C.T., Matthews D.A., Effler S.W., Hines M.E., Henry E.A. Evidence for regulation of monomethylmercury by nitrate in a seasonally stratified, eutrophic lake. Environ Sci Technol 2009, 43:6572-6578.
69. Ulrich S.M., Tanton T.W., Abdrashitova S.A. Mercury in the aquatic environment: a review of factors affecting methylation. Crit Rev Environ Sci Technol 2001, 31:241-293.
70. United State Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Method 1630: Methyl mercury in water by distillation , aqueous ethylation , purge and trap , and cold vapor atomic fluorescence spectrometry engineering and analysis division. 4303 Accessed online:. http://water.epa.gov/scitech/methods/cwa/metals/mercury/upload/2007_07_10_methods_method_mercury_1630.pdf.
71. United State Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Method 245.7: Mercury in water by cold vapor atomic fluorescence spectrometry. Division 4303 Accessed online:. http://water.epa.gov/scitech/methods/cwa/bioindicators/upload/2007_07_10_methods_method_245_7.pdf.
72. van der Velden S., Evans M.S., Dempson J.B., Muir D.C.G., Power M. Comparative analysis of total mercury concentrations in anadromous and non-anadromous Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) from eastern Canada. Sci Total Environ 2013, 447:438-449.
73. van der Velden S., Dempson J.B., Evans M.S., Muir D.C.G., Power M. Basal mercury concentrations and biomagnification rates in freshwater and marine food webs: effects on Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) from eastern Canada. Sci Total Environ 2013, 444:531-542.
74. Vost E., Amyot M., O'Driscoll N.J. Photoreactions of mercury in natural waters. Environmental chemistry and toxicology of mercury 2012, Chapter 5, John Wiley and Sons.
75. Wyn B., Kidd K.A., Burgess N.M., Curry R.A. Mercury biomagnification in the food webs of acidic lakes in Kejimkujik National Park and National Historic Site, Nova Scotia. Can J Fish Aquat Sci 2009, 66:1532-1545.
76. Olejnik SF, Algina J. An analysis of statistical power for parametric ANCOVA and rank transform ANCOVA. Commun Stat Theory 1987;16:1923-49.
77. Treble MA, Campana SE,Wastle RJ, Jones CM, Boje J. Growth analysis and age validation of a deepwater Arctic fish, the Greenland halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides). Can J Fish Aquat Sci 2008;65:1047-59.