期刊
WATER
卷 11, 期 7, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/w11071490
关键词
stable isotope analysis; persistent organic pollutants; crustacean zooplankton; freshwater; size fractions; seasonality
资金
- CIPAIS (Commissione Internazionale per la Protezione delle Acque Italo-Svizzere)
Zooplankton is crucial for the transfer of matter, energy, and pollutants through aquatic food webs. Primary and secondary consumers contribute to the abundance and standing stock biomass, which both vary seasonally. By means of taxa- and size-specific carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis, the path of pollutants through zooplankton is traced and seasonal changes are addressed, in an effort to understand pollutant dynamics in the pelagic food web. We analyzed zooplankton plurennial changes in concentration of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane and its relatives (DDTs) and in taxa-specific delta N-15 signatures in two size fractions, >= 450 mu m and >= 850 mu m, representative of the major part of zooplankton standing stock biomass and of the fraction to which fish predation is mainly directed, respectively. Our work is aimed at verifying: (1) A link between nitrogen isotopic signatures and pollutant concentrations; (2) the predominance of size versus seasonality for concentration of pollutants; and (3) the contribution of secondary versus primary consumers to carbon and nitrogen isotopic signatures. We found a prevalence of seasonality versus size in pollutant concentrations and isotopic signatures. The taxa-specific delta N-15 results correlated to pollutant concentrations, by means of taxa contribution to standing stock biomass and delta N-15 isotopic signatures. This is a step forward to understanding the taxa-specific role in pollutant transfer to planktivores and of zooplankton enrichment in PCBs and DDTs.
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