This article provides an overview of the environmental patterns and dynamics of copper from
the perspective of issues that affect our ability to examine current human exposures. It …

The role of the European Community in developing environmental legislation has focused
the minds of pollution control agencies and industrialists on the need for, and the evidence …

Much of the available literature concerning the bioaccumulation of metals by freshwater and
marine fishes and invertebrates has been reviewed; this includes literature reports of both …

Along the coast of the California Channel Islands, USA, the abundant black abalone Haliotis
cracherodii began to die in large numbers in 1985. This die-off has spread to most of the …

With the view of using Nucella lapillus and Monodonta lineata as bioindicators in
biomonitoring programs in the NW coast of Portugal, the sensitivity to copper and cadmium …

Copper is an important ionoregulatory toxicant in freshwater, but its effects in marine and
brackish water systems are less well characterised. The effect of salinity on short-term …

The black abalone (Haliotis cracherodii Leach, 1814) is a relatively large prosobranch
gastropod mollusc ranging from approximately Point Arena in northern California to Bahia …

The sublethal biochemical actions of copper in live, intact red abalone (Haliotis rufescens)
were characterized by in vivo 31P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR). This …

Rainbow trout were exposed for 3 wk to copper at 0.09, 0.18, 0.29, 0.40, or 0.59 of the mean
control incipient lethal level (ILL) of copper. Whole body copper concentration increased …

Experiments were conducted to develop a sensitive sublethal toxicity test protocol to
determine the toxicity of municipal wastewater effluents to larvae of the red abalone Haliotis …