Migratory crustaceans as biomonitors of metal pollution in their nursery areas. The Lesina lagoon (SE Italy) as a case study
| Autor: | Maria Grazia Volpe, Leonilde Roselli, Raffaele D'Adamo, Adele Fabbrocini, M. Di Stasio, F. Petitto |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Pollution
Geologic Sediments media_common.quotation_subject Management Monitoring Policy and Law Crustacea Metals Heavy Ecotoxicology Animals heavy metals General Environmental Science media_common Pollutant Shrimp juveniles biology Geography Decapoda biomonitor Sediment General Medicine biology.organism_classification Crustacean Bioaccumulation sediment Shrimp bioaccumulation Fishery Italy Environmental science Animal Migration shrimp juveniles Water Pollutants Chemical Environmental Monitoring |
| Zdroj: | Environmental monitoring and assessment 143 (2008): 15–24. doi:10.1007/s10661-007-9944-3 info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:D'Adamo R; Di Stasio M; Fabbrocini A; Petitto F; Roselli L; Volpe M.G./titolo:Migratory crustaceans as biomonitors of metal pollution in their nursery areas. The Lesina lagoon (SE Italy) as a case study/doi:10.1007%2Fs10661-007-9944-3/rivista:Environmental monitoring and assessment (Print)/anno:2008/pagina_da:15/pagina_a:24/intervallo_pagine:15–24/volume:143 143 (2007): 15–24. info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:DAdamo R., Di Stasio M., Fabbrocini A., Petitto F., Roselli L., Volpe M. G./titolo:Migratory crustaceans as biomonitors of metal pollution in their nursery areas. The Lesina lagoon (LE Italy) as a case study/doi:/rivista:Environmental monitoring and assessment (Print)/anno:2007/pagina_da:15/pagina_a:24/intervallo_pagine:15–24/volume:143 |
| Popis: | The Lesina lagoon is located on the southern Adriatic coast of Italy; many marine species, such as the shrimp M. kerathurus, use the Lesina lagoon as a nursery, spending their initial growth phase there. In order to assess the usefulness of migratory species as biomonitors of the environmental quality of this nursery area, we evaluated the metal content of the M. kerathurus juveniles at the end of their growth phase in the lagoon (October), when they are assumed to have bioaccumulated the maximum level of metals from the lagoon environment. The concentrations of Cr, Cd, Pb, Zn, Mn and Cu were measured in the muscle and exoskeleton of the shrimp, and in the sediments and waters of three areas of the Lesina Lagoon. Both the water and sediment levels of the investigated metals tended to fall within the ranges recorded for other lagoon environments characterized by similar anthropic impact and texturally similar sediment; the juveniles of the shrimp M. kerathurus proved to be strong bioaccumulators of heavy metals such as Zn and Cu (biota-sediment accumulation factors – BSAFs – 6.01 and 25.0 respectively), which derive from agricultural activities; therefore, at the end of their growing phase in the lagoon they can be considered useful biomonitors of metal contamination of agricultural origin in their nursery area. |
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