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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY
Volume 102, Issue 3, Pages 283-293Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2010.12.003
Keywords
Cesium; Water column; Plankton; Periphyton; Invertebrates; Fish
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- Environmental Remediation Sciences Division of the Office of Biological and Environmental Research, U. S. Department of Energy [DE-FC09-96SR18546]
- University of Georgia Research Foundation
- U. S. Department of Energy
- Oregon State University
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The rates of accumulation and subsequent loss of stable cesium (Cs-133) by organisms at different trophic levels within plankton-based and periphyton-based food chains were measured following the addition of Cs-133 into a small reservoir near Aiken, South Carolina, USA. An uptake parameter u (L kg(-1) d(-1) dry mass) and a loss rate parameter k (d(-1)) were estimated for each organism using time-series measurements of Cs-133 concentrations in water and biota, and these parameters were used to estimate maximum concentrations, times to maximum concentrations, and concentration ratios (C-r). The maximum Cs-133 concentrations for plankton, periphyton, the insect larva Chaoborus punctipennis, which feeds on plankton, and the snail Helisoma trivolvis, which feeds on periphyton, occurred within the first 14 days following the addition, whereas the maximum concentrations for the fish species Lepomis macrochirus and Micropterus salmoides occurred after 170 days. The C-r based on dry mass for plankton and C. punctipennis were 1220 L kg(-1) and 5570 L kg(-1), respectively, and were less than the C-r of 8630 L kg(-1) for periphyton and 47,700 L kg(-1) for H. trivolvis. Although the C-r differed between plankton-based and periphyton-based food chains, they displayed similar levels of biomagnification. Biomagnification was also indicated for fish where the C-r for the mostly nonpiscivorous L. macrochinis of 22,600 L kg(-1) was three times less than that for mostly piscivorous M. salmoides of 71,500 L kg(-1). Although the C-r for M. salmoides was greater than those for periphyton and H. trivolvis, the maximum Cs-133 concentrations for periphyton and H. trivolvis were greater than that for M. salmoides. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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