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| Title |
Estimating Mercury Exposure of Piscivorous Birds and Sport Fish Using Prey Fish Monitoring
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| Published in |
Environmental Science & Technology, October 2015
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| DOI | 10.1021/acs.est.5b02691 |
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| Authors |
Joshua T. Ackerman, C. Alex Hartman, Collin A. Eagles-Smith, Mark P. Herzog, Jay Davis, Gary Ichikawa, Autumn Bonnema |
| Abstract |
Methylmercury is a global pollutant of aquatic ecosystems and monitoring programs need tools to predict mercury exposure of wildlife. We developed equations to estimate methylmercury exposure of piscivorous birds and sport fish using mercury concentrations in prey fish. We collected original data on western grebes (Aechmophorus occidentalis) and Clark's grebes (Aechmophorus clarkii) and summarized the published literature to generate predictive equations specific to grebes and a general equation for piscivorous birds. We measured mercury concentrations in 354 grebes (blood averaged 1.06±0.08 µg/g ww), 101 grebe eggs, 230 sport fish (predominantly largemouth bass and rainbow trout), and 505 prey fish (14 species) at 25 lakes throughout California. Mercury concentrations in grebe blood, grebe eggs, and sport fish were strongly related to mercury concentrations in prey fish among lakes. Each 1.0 µg/g dw (~0.24 µg/g ww) increase in prey fish resulted in an increase in mercury concentrations of 103% in grebe blood, 92% in grebe eggs, and 116% in sport fish. We also found strong correlations between mercury concentrations in grebes and sport fish among lakes. Our results indicate that prey fish monitoring can be used to estimate mercury exposure of piscivorous birds and sport fish when wildlife cannot be directly sampled. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 33% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Scientists | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 33 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Researcher | 9 | 26% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 9% |
| Professor | 3 | 9% |
| Other | 4 | 12% |
| Unknown | 5 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science | 13 | 38% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 8 | 24% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 3% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 1 | 3% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 3 | 9% |
| Unknown | 7 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 March 2016.
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