2015
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-015-4436-3
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Transfer of heavy metals through terrestrial food webs: a review

Abstract: Heavy metals are released into the environment by both anthropogenic and natural sources. Highly reactive and often toxic at low concentrations, they may enter soils and groundwater, bioaccumulate in food webs, and adversely affect biota. Heavy metals also may remain in the environment for years, posing long-term risks to life well after point sources of heavy metal pollution have been removed. In this review, we compile studies of the community-level effects of heavy metal pollution, including heavy metal tra… Show more

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“…This result supports the findings documented by Hossain et al [67], and Gall & Rajakaruna [66] who demonstrated the ability of plants to evade heavy metal assimilation from the root, or to tolerate metal accumulation in other tissues [66,68]. Hence, for most species, heavy metal concentrations in different tissues depend primarily on their physiology [12]. On the other hand, Mathews et al [69] documented that the direct contact of earthworms with the contamination source, can delimit metal accumulation.…”
Section: Network Analysissupporting
confidence: 89%
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“…This result supports the findings documented by Hossain et al [67], and Gall & Rajakaruna [66] who demonstrated the ability of plants to evade heavy metal assimilation from the root, or to tolerate metal accumulation in other tissues [66,68]. Hence, for most species, heavy metal concentrations in different tissues depend primarily on their physiology [12]. On the other hand, Mathews et al [69] documented that the direct contact of earthworms with the contamination source, can delimit metal accumulation.…”
Section: Network Analysissupporting
confidence: 89%
“…In environments impacted by mining activity, the analysis of the interactions between the exposed organisms and the ecosystem health, has become an issue of international relevance [12]. In particular, metals derived from mine wastes, which are called tailings, can be accumulated in living organisms, either by consumption, inhalation, or cutaneous absorption, which induces their transfer along the trophic chain involved, endangering the dynamics of the ecosystem, including humans [13,14].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ecosystem stability may be altered because of the incorporation of HM, derived from mining activities [54].…”
Section: Heavy Metal Effects On Ecosystemsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Many ecotoxicological studies that assess HM effects on terrestrial ecosystems have focused on the analysis of HM concentrations in soils, their bioavailability and bioaccumulation, but few have analyzed their biomagnification trough the trophic chain and their effects on ecosystem integrity [54].…”
Section: Heavy Metal Effects On Ecosystemsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The long-time persistence of these toxic metals within soil and their accumulation in plant tissues at sub-phytotoxic levels may pose a grave risk to higher strata in food chains (Zhuang et al, 2009;Gall et al, 2015). In contrast to heavy metal concentration based guidelines for the use of sewage sludge in agriculture, guidelines for the agricultural use of fly ash are limited, only found in New South Wales and Australia (Yunusa et al, 2012) and no such recommended standards are available in India.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%