Metal concentrations in chub, Leuciscus cephalus, from a submontane river

Autor: Marek Krywult, Ewa Szarek-Gwiazda, Mariusz Klich
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Acta Ichthyologica Et Piscatoria. 38:47-53
ISSN: 1734-1515
0137-1592
DOI: 10.3750/aip2008.38.1.08
Popis: Inmanyaquaticenvironmentselevatedlevelsoftraceelements occur due to anthropogenic activities. Waterorganismscanbepreciseindicatorsinestimatingthestatusofpollutionofwaterenvironments.Amongthemseveralspeciesoffishhavebeenwidelyused(Hakanson1984,Chevreuiletal.1995,Andresetal.2000,Falandyszetal.2000,PerkowskaandProtasowicki2000,Řehulka2001,WagnerandBoman2003,Polechonski2004,Szarek-GwiazdaandAmirowicz2006).Accumulationoftraceelementsinthetissuesoffishlivinginaquaticenvironmentdependsonmanyfactors(JezierskaandWiteska2001).Thesefactorsinclude metal contents in water and food organisms,exposuretime,environmentconditions(e.g.,pH,alkalin-ity, salinity), feeding habit, age, and size of fish(Protasowicki1991,Masonetal.2000,Řehulka2001,Jezierskaetal.2002,WiteskaandBaka2002,Dobickiand Polechonski 2003, Łuczynska and Brucka-Jastrzebska2005),andthedifferencesinmetallothionein(MT)geneinductionbyvariousspeciesoffish(OlssonandKille1997,DeBoecketal.2003).Chevreuiletal.(1995)andAndresetal.(2000)—tonamejustafew—indicatedthattheomnivorousroach,whichiscommonandoftenabundantincentralEuropeaninlandwaters,isausefulspeciesinmonitoringstudies.Roachcanaccumulatecertaintraceelementsinconsider-ableamounts,greaterthanotherspeciesinhabitingthesamewaterbodies.Andresetal.(2000),Spurnýetal.(2002),Demiraketal.(2006),andYilmazetal.(2007)usedotheromnivorousfishi.e.,chub
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