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Title: Field transplantation of the freshwater bivalve Corbicula fluminea along a polymetallic contamination gradient (River Lot, France): 1. Geochemical characteristics of the sampling sites and cadmium and zinc bioccumulation kinetics

Abstract

Specimens of the Asiatic clam Corbicula fluminea were transplanted from a clean lacustrine site to four stations along a polymetallic gradient in the river Lot (France), downstream from an old Zn ore treatment facility. The bivalves were held in benthic cages for a 5-month exposure period, April to September 1996; mollusk growth and metal bioaccumulation kinetics (Cd, Zn) were followed by subsampling the cages at t = 0, 21, 49, 85, 120, and 150 d. Rates of Cd bioaccumulation in the whole soft bodies and in individual organs were greater at the upstream stations located close to the pollution source, but there was no direct proportionality between Cd in the bivalves and in the unfiltered or filtered river water samples. Unlike the case for Cd, rates of Zn bioaccumulation did not reflect the contamination gradient. Marked growth differences were measured among the four stations, reflecting both nutritional differences and changes in the degree of metal contamination; these growth differences produced markedly different trends when metal bioaccumulation was expressed in terms of burdens rather than concentrations.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. Bordeaux 1/CNRS, Talence (FR)
OSTI Identifier:
20012751
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 18; Journal Issue: 11; Other Information: PBD: Nov 1999; Journal ID: ISSN 0730-7268
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 56 BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, APPLIED STUDIES; WATER POLLUTION; BIOLOGICAL INDICATORS; CADMIUM; ZINC; BIOLOGICAL ACCUMULATION; CLAMS; FRANCE; RIVERS; ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION

Citation Formats

Andres, S, Baudrimont, M, Lapaquellerie, Y, Ribeyre, F, Maillet, N, Latouche, C, and Boudou, A. Field transplantation of the freshwater bivalve Corbicula fluminea along a polymetallic contamination gradient (River Lot, France): 1. Geochemical characteristics of the sampling sites and cadmium and zinc bioccumulation kinetics. United States: N. p., 1999. Web. doi:10.1897/1551-5028(1999)018<2462:FTOTFB>2.3.CO;2.
Andres, S, Baudrimont, M, Lapaquellerie, Y, Ribeyre, F, Maillet, N, Latouche, C, & Boudou, A. Field transplantation of the freshwater bivalve Corbicula fluminea along a polymetallic contamination gradient (River Lot, France): 1. Geochemical characteristics of the sampling sites and cadmium and zinc bioccumulation kinetics. United States. https://doi.org/10.1897/1551-5028(1999)018<2462:FTOTFB>2.3.CO;2
Andres, S, Baudrimont, M, Lapaquellerie, Y, Ribeyre, F, Maillet, N, Latouche, C, and Boudou, A. 1999. "Field transplantation of the freshwater bivalve Corbicula fluminea along a polymetallic contamination gradient (River Lot, France): 1. Geochemical characteristics of the sampling sites and cadmium and zinc bioccumulation kinetics". United States. https://doi.org/10.1897/1551-5028(1999)018<2462:FTOTFB>2.3.CO;2.
@article{osti_20012751,
title = {Field transplantation of the freshwater bivalve Corbicula fluminea along a polymetallic contamination gradient (River Lot, France): 1. Geochemical characteristics of the sampling sites and cadmium and zinc bioccumulation kinetics},
author = {Andres, S and Baudrimont, M and Lapaquellerie, Y and Ribeyre, F and Maillet, N and Latouche, C and Boudou, A},
abstractNote = {Specimens of the Asiatic clam Corbicula fluminea were transplanted from a clean lacustrine site to four stations along a polymetallic gradient in the river Lot (France), downstream from an old Zn ore treatment facility. The bivalves were held in benthic cages for a 5-month exposure period, April to September 1996; mollusk growth and metal bioaccumulation kinetics (Cd, Zn) were followed by subsampling the cages at t = 0, 21, 49, 85, 120, and 150 d. Rates of Cd bioaccumulation in the whole soft bodies and in individual organs were greater at the upstream stations located close to the pollution source, but there was no direct proportionality between Cd in the bivalves and in the unfiltered or filtered river water samples. Unlike the case for Cd, rates of Zn bioaccumulation did not reflect the contamination gradient. Marked growth differences were measured among the four stations, reflecting both nutritional differences and changes in the degree of metal contamination; these growth differences produced markedly different trends when metal bioaccumulation was expressed in terms of burdens rather than concentrations.},
doi = {10.1897/1551-5028(1999)018<2462:FTOTFB>2.3.CO;2},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/20012751}, journal = {Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry},
issn = {0730-7268},
number = 11,
volume = 18,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1999},
month = {Mon Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1999}
}