Biological monitoring of ambient water quality: the case for using bivalves as sentinel organisms for monitoring petroleum pollution in coastal waters
Abstract
Concepts of lipid/water equilibration to explain bio-concentration of hydrocarbons were tested in situ and seem to hold for petroleum mixtures commonly encountered in coastal waters. Kbef in bivalve lipids was constant at approximately 2×10 5 when concentrations were between 1 and 400 μg l -1. These and related studies on the factors controlling body burden in bivalves were used to formulate a strategy for monitoring levels of chronic oil pollution necessary for water quality management.
- Publication:
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Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
- Pub Date:
- October 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S0302-3524(81)80039-4
- Bibcode:
- 1981ECSS...13..433B