Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Table 1. contd.
Species
Conservation
Status
Location
(Country, State)
No. Samples
(sex)
Year
Hg
(liver)
Cd
(liver)
Cd
(Kidney)
Cu
(liver)
Zn (liver) Reference
SPO
(Australia)
2
1995-1996
65 ± 88
8 ± 10
60
53 ± 27
370 ± 291 Law et al. 2003
a
3-128
0.3-15
-
34-72
164-576
NAO
(South Carolina)
34
-
71 ± 111
0.2 ± 0.3
-
43 ± 59
228 ± 204 Beck et al. 1997
a
nd-586
nd-1
-
7-316
48-1084
North Eastern
Atlantic
102
1997-2003
60 ± 93
-
6 ± 8
44 ± 9
214 ± 156 Lahaye et al. 2007
a
1-569
-
nd-52
7-669
53-993
NAO
(Portugal)
2
-
132 ± 120
-
-
20 ± 6
152 ± 48
Carvalho et al.
2002
23-241
-
-
16-25
118-186
Mediterranean
(Israel)
14
1994-1999
388 ± 596
2 ± 1
4 ± 7
36 ± 22
176 ± 120 Roditi-Elasar et al.
2003
a
4-1964
0.5-4
0.2-17
17-96
60-460
South Adriatic
Sea
13
1996-1997
1573 ±
5.28
-
11 ± 16
33 ± 0.6
211 ± 3
Storelli and
Marcotrigiano
2002
Ligurian Sea
2
1999-2002
1875 ±
2633
3
5 ± 7
58 ± 52
266 ± 32
Capelli et al. 2008
Italian Coast
12
2000-2009
332 ± 450
-
-
-
-
Bellante et al. 2012
10-1404
-
-
-
-
NAO North Atlantic Ocean; SAO South Atlantic Ocean; Wet weight basis concentration was converted to dry weight basis concentration assuming
that moisture content was
a
75% or
c
69.7% (Yang and Miyazaki 2003);
b
Reported the maximum concentrations found by the authors;
d
animals died
from infectious disease;
e
FC 0.29 for liver and 0.23 for kidney used to convert to dry weight basis for the author. -No information available.
