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  • Habitat-Specific Differences in Mercury Concentration in a Top Predator from a Shallow Lake

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    Chumchal, Matthew M.
    Drenner, Ray W.
    Fry, Brian
    Hambright, David
    Newland, Leo W.
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Fry, Brian D.
    Year published
    2008
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    Abstract
    We conducted a survey of mercury contamination in largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides from Caddo Lake, Texas, and found that fish collected from forested wetland habitat had higher concentrations of mercury than those collected from open-water habitat. Habitat-specific differences in largemouth bass size, age, absolute growth rate, trophic position (based on d15N), and horizontal food web position (based on d13C), characteristics known to influence mercury accumulation, did not explain the observed differences in mercury contamination. Rather, habitat-related differences in mercury concentration in a primary consumer, ...
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    We conducted a survey of mercury contamination in largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides from Caddo Lake, Texas, and found that fish collected from forested wetland habitat had higher concentrations of mercury than those collected from open-water habitat. Habitat-specific differences in largemouth bass size, age, absolute growth rate, trophic position (based on d15N), and horizontal food web position (based on d13C), characteristics known to influence mercury accumulation, did not explain the observed differences in mercury contamination. Rather, habitat-related differences in mercury concentration in a primary consumer, Mississippi grass shrimp Palaemonetes kadiakensis, indicated that food webs in forested wetland habitat were more contaminated with mercury than those in open-water habitat. Spatial variation in mercury contamination within lakes and elevated mercury concentrations in forested wetlands should be of special concern not only to researchers but also to public and environmental health officials dealing with mercury contamination in aquatic environments and human health risks associated with consumption of fish contaminated with mercury.
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    Journal Title
    Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
    Volume
    137
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1577/T07-009.1
    Copyright Statement
    © 2008 American Fisheries Society (AFS). The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Fisheries Sciences not elsewhere classified
    Fisheries Sciences
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/44251
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