Comparison of Contaminant Accumulation in Three Species of Marine Invertebrates With Different Feeding Habits

Kaag, N.H.B.M.; Foekema, E.M.; Scholten, M.; Straalen, Nico M. van

doi:10.1897/1551-5028(1997)016<0837:cocait>2.3.co;2

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“…On the other hand, during long-term contact between PAHs and sediment particles, PAHs become tightly bound to organic phases in the sediment, reducing their bioavailability (Neff 2002). Levels of BCF confirm that those PAHs that present logKow values of 5-6 show the highest accumulation potential as reported in previous studies (Kaag et al 1997;kaag et al 1998;Rust et al 2004a).…”

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“…Uptake of hydrophobic compounds from ingested material has been reported as a major contributor to an animal's total body burden of toxicants (Kaag et al 1996;Kaag et al 1998;Penry and Weston 1998;Selck et al 2003). Also bioaccumulation studies have shown that lugworms accumulate organic contaminants to higher concentrations than filter feeding animals (Kaag et al 1997).…”

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Using the polychaete Arenicola marina to determine toxicity and bioaccumulation of PAHS bound to sediments

Morales‐Caselles

Ramos

Riba

et al. 2007

Environ Monit Assess

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The present study was conducted to evaluate a sediment toxicity and bioavailability test with the polychaete Arenicola marina as a potential tool to assess sediments contaminated by oil spills. A bioassay using the lugworm Arenicola marina was carried out in order to determine toxicity and bioaccumulation associated with the contaminants present in the fuel oil extracted from a sank tanker. After 10 and 21 days of exposure to sediments with different proportions of fuel oil (0.5, 1, 2, 4 and 8%) polychaetes were sampled to determine the mortality and the levels of individual PAHs in the organisms. During the experiment, mortality was recorded and the concentration (percentage of fuel oil) that provokes the mortality of the 50% of the Arenicola marina population exposed was calculated for both sampling dates (LC50(10) = 6.4%; LC50(21) = 2.4%). Bioaccumulation was mainly produced for fluoranthene, pyrene, benzo(b)fluoranthene and benzo(k)fluoranthene, whereas phenantrene and anthracene where initially accumulated and then metabolized. The results obtained in the present study suggest Arenicola marina can be a suitable species for assessing PAHs toxicity and bioaccumulation as part of oil spill management.

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Using the polychaete Arenicola marina to determine toxicity and bioaccumulation of PAHS bound to sediments

Morales‐Caselles

Ramos

Riba

et al. 2007

Environ Monit Assess

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“…Feeding mode, burrowing depth, feeding depth, and irrigation habits all can have an important influence on metal exposure (3,6,26,50,51). For example, the head-down deposit feeder H. filiformis inhabits deep sediments, ingests sulfide-rich sediments, and does not actively irrigate their burrows with oxic overlying water.…”

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Influence of Acid Volatile Sulfide and Metal Concentrations on Metal Bioavailability to Marine Invertebrates in Contaminated Sediments

Lee

Luoma

et al. 2000

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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An 18-day microcosm study was conducted to evaluate the influence of acid volatile sulfides (AVS) and metal additions on bioaccumulation from sediments of Cd, Ni, and Zn in two clams (Macoma balthica and Potamocorbula amurensis) and three marine polychaetes (Neanthes arenaceodentata, Heteromastus filiformis, and Spiophanes missionensis). Manipulation of AVS by oxidation of naturally anoxic sediments allowed use of metal concentrations typical of nature and evaluation of processes important to chronic metal exposure. A vertical sediment column similar to that often found in nature was used to facilitate realistic biological behavior. Results showed that AVS or porewater (PW) metals controlled bioaccumulation in only 2 of 15 metal-animal combinations. Bioaccumulation of all three metals by the bivalves was related significantly to metal concentrations extracted from sediments (SEM) but not to [SEM -AVS] or PW metals. SEM predominantly influenced bioaccumulation of Ni and Zn in N. arenaceodentata, but Cd bioaccumulation followed PW Cd concentrations. SEM controlled tissue concentrations of all three metals in H. filiformis and S. missionensis, with minor influences from metal-sulfide chemistry. Significant bioaccumulation occurred when SEM was only a small fraction of AVS in several treatments. Three factors appeared to contribute to the differences between these bioaccumulation results and the results from toxicity tests reported previously: differences in experimental design, dietary uptake, and biological attributes of the species, including mode and depth of feeding.

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“…Filter feeders tend to bioaccumulate less from contaminated sediments than deposit-feeding species [40], as illustrated here by M. lateralis, which showed no significant PAH bioaccumulation from either treatment. However, M. arenaria, another filter feeder, did show significant uptake from both treatments.…”

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Influence of soot carbon on the bioaccumulation of sediment‐bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by marine benthic invertebrates: An interspecies comparison

Rust

Burgess

McElroy

et al. 2004

Enviro Toxic and Chemistry

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The sorption of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) to soot carbon in marine sediments has been hypothesized to reduce PAH bioavailability. This hypothesis was tested for eight species of marine benthic invertebrates (four polychaete worms, Clymenella torquata, Nereis virens, Cirriformia grandis, and Pectinaria gouldii, and four bivalve mollusks, Macoma balthica, Mulinia lateralis, Yoldia limatula, and Mya arenaria) that span a wide range of feeding behavior, ability to metabolize PAHs, and gut chemistry. Organisms were exposed for 20 d to two PAH-spiked sediments, one with soot and one without soot. The soot treatment generally resulted in lower bioaccumulation than the no soot treatment, though the differences between treatments were not significant for all species. All but one species accumulated significant PAH concentrations in their tissues from the soot treatment, indicating that soot-bound PAH cannot be dismissed as unavailable to infaunal benthic biota. Bioaccumulation factors were correlated negatively to both the organisms' ability to metabolize PAHs and the gut fluid contact angle, supporting the hypotheses that high PAH metabolism results in lower bioaccumulation factors and bioavailability of PAHs may be limited partially by PAH solubilization in the gut lumen. The variability in bioaccumulation due to the soot treatment was much less than the variability between species and between PAH analytes. Comparatively low bioaccumulation was observed in Nereis virens, a species commonly used in bioaccumulation tests. These results suggest that more effort is needed in understanding the salient characteristics of species present in a threatened environment, rather than focusing solely on the sediment geochemistry (e.g., soot and organic carbon content) and contaminant characteristics when predicting ecological risk of PAH-contaminated sediments.

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Comparison of Contaminant Accumulation in Three Species of Marine Invertebrates With Different Feeding Habits

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Using the polychaete Arenicola marina to determine toxicity and bioaccumulation of PAHS bound to sediments

Using the polychaete Arenicola marina to determine toxicity and bioaccumulation of PAHS bound to sediments

Influence of Acid Volatile Sulfide and Metal Concentrations on Metal Bioavailability to Marine Invertebrates in Contaminated Sediments

Influence of soot carbon on the bioaccumulation of sediment‐bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by marine benthic invertebrates: An interspecies comparison

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