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Food‐chain transfers of cadmium released into a woodland ecosystem by a chemical accident

Authors :
M. C. French
Richard F. Shore
Jason M. Weeks
P. Freestone
Daniel Osborn
Andrew A. Meharg
Source :
Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry. 59:167-178
Publication Year :
1997
Publisher :
Informa UK Limited, 1997.

Abstract

The fate of cadmium released into a forest ecosystem via a chemical accident was determined by analysing cadmium in biological tissue from a number of differing tropic levels within the ecosystem: including soil litter, graminaceous species, invertebrates and small mammals. Cadmium was bioavailable to all organisms investigated and was transferred through the food chain to small mammals.

Details

ISSN :
10290486 and 02772248
Volume :
59
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........9615b37b44dfff5a7933764450267a50
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1080/02772249709358433