Heavy metal accumulation by bacteria and other microorganisms

GM Gadd - Experientia, 1990‏ - Springer
Bacteria, and other microorganisms, exhibit a number of metabolism-dependent and-
independent processes or the uptake and accumulation of heavy metals and radionuclides …

Trace element trophic transfer in aquatic organisms: a critique of the kinetic model approach

JR Reinfelder, NS Fisher, SN Luoma… - Science of the Total …, 1998‏ - Elsevier
The bioaccumulation of trace elements in aquatic organisms can be described with a kinetic
model that includes linear expressions for uptake and elimination from dissolved and dietary …

Kinetic determinations of trace element bioaccumulation in the mussel Mytilus edulis

WX Wang, NS Fisher, SN Luoma - Marine ecology progress series, 1996‏ - int-res.com
Laboratory experiments employing radiotracer methodology were conducted to determine
the assimilation efficiencies from ingested natural seston, the influx rates from the dissolved …

Assimilation efficiencies of chemical contaminants in aquatic invertebrates: a synthesis

WX Wang, NS Fisher - Environmental toxicology and chemistry, 1999‏ - academic.oup.com
Assimilation efficiencies of contaminants from ingested food are critical for understanding
chemical accumulation and trophic transfer in aquatic invertebrates. Assimilation efficiency …

The assimilation of elements ingested by marine copepods

JR Reinfelder, NS Fisher - Science, 1991‏ - science.org
The efficiency with which a variety of ingested elements (Ag, Am, C, Cd, P, S, Se, and Zn)
were assimilated in marine calanoid copepods fed uniformly radiolabeled diatoms ranged …

Oceanic trace metal scavenging: the importance of particle concentration

BD Honeyman, LS Balistrieri, JW Murray - Deep Sea Research Part A …, 1988‏ - Elsevier
Adsorption (surface complexation) has long been considered to be the dominant process
involved in the oceanic scavenging of many trace metals. Much of what we know about …

Methylmercury uptake by diverse marine phytoplankton

CS Lee, NS Fisher - Limnology and Oceanography, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Phytoplankton may serve as a key entry for methylmercury (MeHg) into aquatic food webs
however very few studies have quantified the bioconcentration of MeHg in marine …

The IAEA handbook on radionuclide transfer to wildlife

BJ Howard, NA Beresford, D Copplestone… - Journal of environmental …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
An IAEA handbook presenting transfer parameter values for wildlife has recently been
produced. Concentration ratios (CRwo-media) between the whole organism (fresh weight) …

Radionuclide concentration processes in marine organisms: A comprehensive review

FP Carvalho - Journal of environmental radioactivity, 2018‏ - Elsevier
The first measurements made of artificial radionuclides released into the marine
environment did reveal that radionuclides are concentrated by marine biological species …

Short-lived U/Th series radionuclides in the ocean: tracers for scavenging rates, export fluxes and particle dynamics

JK Cochran, P Masqué - Reviews in Mineralogy and …, 2003‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The uranium and thorium decay series have numerous radionuclides with half-lives ranging
from fractions of a second to a few years. The former include many of the isotopes of radon …