Mission impossible: Reach the carrion in a lithium pollution and marine warming scenario

Behavioural and Biochemical Responses of the Sea Snail Tritia Reticulata to Lithium Concentration Gradient

“…Studies detailing the impacts of Li contamination on marine organisms are still scarce, although this metal is known to have negative effects in high concentrations. Most studies on the impacts of Li on aquatic wildlife focus on invertebrates of the classes Gastropoda and Bivalvia (Rodríguez et al, 2021(Rodríguez et al, , 2022Santos et al, 2023;Thibon et al, 2021;Viana et al, 2020;). In a study by Viana et al (2020), the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis showed an increase in Li accumulation when exposed to a Li range of concentrations.…”

“…It is widely distributed mostly through the North Atlantic, in European waters (Tallmark, 1980). Although no studies have to date evaluated this species' response to Li contamination, previous work in a species of the same genus, T. neritea, has shown that a combination of Li exposure (500 µg L − 1 ) and the increased temperature induced biochemical changes and physiological alterations, which in turn affected organisms' feeding and scavenging capacities (Rodríguez et al, 2021;. Despite this, tolerance for varying concentrations of Li remains unstudied for these gastropods.…”