Bioaccumulation syndrome: identifying factors that make some stream food webs prone to elevated mercury bioaccumulation

DM Ward, KH Nislow, CL Folt - … of the New York Academy of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Mercury is a ubiquitous contaminant in aquatic ecosystems, posing a significant health risk
to humans and wildlife that eat fish. Mercury accumulates in aquatic food webs as …

Models for estimating feed intake in aquaculture: A review

M Sun, SG Hassan, D Li - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2016 - Elsevier
The uptake of food in aquaculture is considered to be crucial in feeding systems and
obviously affects the weight and diet conversion efficiency. Over-feeding may lead to feed …

Bioenergetics and mercury dynamics in fish: a modelling perspective

M Trudel, JB Rasmussen - Canadian Journal of Fisheries and …, 2006 - cdnsciencepub.com
Les teneurs en mercure augmentent généralement en fonction de l'âge et de la taille chez
les poisons. Bien qu'un certain nombre d'hypothèses aient été invoquées pour expliquer ces …

Rates and components of carbon turnover in fish muscle: insights from bioenergetics models and a whole-lake 13C addition

BC Weidel, SR Carpenter, JF Kitchell… - Canadian Journal of …, 2011 - cdnsciencepub.com
Stable isotopes are widely employed to describe energy flow in aquatic communities,
though interpretation of results can be confounded by the fact that organisms integrate over …

Bioenergetics modeling in the 21st century: reviewing new insights and revisiting old constraints

SR Chipps, DH Wahl - Transactions of the American Fisheries …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The development and application of fish bioenergetics models have flourished in recent
years, due in part to the complexity of the issues being faced by fisheries biologists. As with …

Experimental and natural warming elevates mercury concentrations in estuarine fish

JA Dijkstra, KL Buckman, D Ward, DW Evans… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Marine food webs are the most important link between the global contaminant,
methylmercury (MeHg), and human exposure through consumption of seafood. Warming …

Rapid, efficient growth reduces mercury concentrations in stream-dwelling Atlantic salmon

DM Ward, KH Nislow, CY Chen… - Transactions of the …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Mercury (Hg) is a potent toxin that biomagnifies in aquatic food webs. Large fish generally
have higher Hg concentrations than small fish of the same species. However, models predict …

Mercury contamination in spotted seatrout, Cynoscion nebulosus: an assessment of liver, kidney, blood, and nervous system health

DH Adams, C Sonne, N Basu, R Dietz, DH Nam… - Science of the total …, 2010 - Elsevier
Marine fishes in South Florida (Florida Keys–Florida Bay–Everglades region) accumulate
higher concentrations of mercury (Hg) in their tissues than similar fishes from other areas of …

Towards a marine strategy for the deep Mediterranean Sea: Analysis of current ecological status

R Danovaro, E Fanelli, M Canals, T Ciuffardi, MC Fabri… - Marine Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), introduced in June 2008, was
adopted to achieve a Good Environmental Status (GES) in the EU's marine waters and to …

Influences of Bioavailability, Trophic Position, and Growth on Methylmercury in Hakes (Merluccius merluccius) from Northwestern Mediterranean and Northeastern …

D Cossa, M Harmelin-Vivien… - … science & technology, 2012 - ACS Publications
Methylmercury (MeHg) determinations in hake, its food-chain, and the surrounding waters
and sediments allowed us to show that the higher length or age normalized mercury …