1995
DOI: 10.1016/0025-326x(95)00197-u
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Trace organic contamination in the Americas: An overview of the US National Status & Trends and the International ‘Mussel Watch’ programmes

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“…The concentrations of total PAHs in this study ng/g, in Valdivia, and 12-253 ng/g, in Valparaiso, on a two year period) are lower than PAHs reported in Mytilus chilensis collected from an inner area located to the south of the Corral Bay (138-877 ng/g during the period 1999-2000, described as medium polluted by PAHs) 29 and represent values of low to moderate pollution levels according to Baumard et al (1998) criteria 31 . PAHs levels in the present study are also comparable to the lower-medium range of PAHs determined in the mussel Mytilus californianus collected from San Francisco Bay by Oros et al (2005) (21-1093 ng/g d.w.) 32 and lower than the levels reported by Sericano et al (1995) 20 in bivalves collected from Punta Arenas (1600 ng/g d.w), South of Chile, and also considerable lower compared to the levels found in blue mussel, Mytilus trossulus from Arcachon Bay, France, a site of high contamination (4500-5000 ng/g d.w.) 33 .…”
Section: Pahscontrasting
confidence: 57%
“…The concentrations of total PAHs in this study ng/g, in Valdivia, and 12-253 ng/g, in Valparaiso, on a two year period) are lower than PAHs reported in Mytilus chilensis collected from an inner area located to the south of the Corral Bay (138-877 ng/g during the period 1999-2000, described as medium polluted by PAHs) 29 and represent values of low to moderate pollution levels according to Baumard et al (1998) criteria 31 . PAHs levels in the present study are also comparable to the lower-medium range of PAHs determined in the mussel Mytilus californianus collected from San Francisco Bay by Oros et al (2005) (21-1093 ng/g d.w.) 32 and lower than the levels reported by Sericano et al (1995) 20 in bivalves collected from Punta Arenas (1600 ng/g d.w), South of Chile, and also considerable lower compared to the levels found in blue mussel, Mytilus trossulus from Arcachon Bay, France, a site of high contamination (4500-5000 ng/g d.w.) 33 .…”
Section: Pahscontrasting
confidence: 57%
“…G. demissa is a keystone species in salt marsh ecosystems due to high rates of production and large biomass and their active processing of particulate carbon and nitrogen (Kuenzler, 1961 a, b;Jordan and Valiela, 1982;Bertness 1984;Evgenidou and Valiela, 2002;Chintala et al, 2006). The abundance of ribbed mussels in these coastal ecosystems, their sessile nature, tolerance to environmental contaminants, suspension feeding, and ease to transplant make them useful organisms for pollution monitoring (Widdows and Donkin, 1992;Sericano et al, 1995).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Programs of in situ monitoring of coastal waters have appropriately been based on this specific characteristic. For example, the Mussel Watch is using the common mussel Mytilus edulis as a sentinel species (186)(187)(188)(189)(190)(191)(192). Prosobranch gastropods such as Nucella lapillus or Littorina littorea, which are merely sedentary animals, are sensitive to tributyltin (TBT) that induces imposex (i.e., the development of male characteristics in female snails), and have been used as bioindicators to investigate the environmental impact ofTBT (193)(194)(195)(196)(197)(198)(199)(200)(201).…”
Section: Invertebrates In Laboratory Toxicology Testingmentioning
confidence: 99%