Persistent organic pollutants in river food webs: influence of trophic position and degree of heterotrophy
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Summary, in English
We investigated how the degree of autotrophy/heterotrophy and organism trophic position influenced the bioaccumulation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in 10 benthic river food webs consisting of terrestrial detritus, periphyton, invertebrates, and age-0 brown trout (Salmo trutta) in southern Sweden. Concentrations of PCBs increased with trophic position, estimated from delta(15)N and delta(13)C, on a dry weight basis (ng center dot g(-1) dry weight) but not on a lipid weight basis (ng center dot g(-1) lipid). PCB biomagnification factors between the first and second trophic levels (invertebrates/ periphyton and invertebrates/detritus) ranged between 0.3 and 2.3 and between the second and third levels (trout/invertebrates) between 0.3 and 2.0 on a lipid weight basis. The mean proportion of carbon ultimately derived from terrestrial sources, alpha, was 0.82 +/- 0.19 for invertebrates and 0.67 +/- 0.28 for trout. Contrary to our hypothesis, PCB concentrations in trout were positively related to alpha (r(2) = 0.58-0.77, p < 0.05). As alpha and the periphyton density (g C center dot m(-2)) in the rivers was positively related (r(2) = 0.88, p < 0.01), we propose that this relationship was due to an increased retention and exposure of PCBs to trout in rivers with low grazing pressure and high periphyton density.
Publiceringsår
2005
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
2021-2032
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Volym
62
Issue
9
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Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Canadian Science Publishing, NRC Research Press
Ämne
- Ecology
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Aquatic Ecology
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1205-7533