caa a22 4500 467905169 CHVBK 20180406152831.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10661-005-9057-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10661-005-9057-9 Relationships Between Toxicity and Concentrations of Chemical Contaminants in Sediments from Sydney Harbour, Australia, and Vicinity [Elektronische Daten] [S. McCready, G. Birch, E. Long, G. Spyrakis, C. Greely] Correlation analyses between measures of toxicity and concentrations of chemical contaminants were conducted for 103 surficial sediments from Sydney Harbour, Australia, and vicinity. Toxicity tests consisted of amphipod survival and reburial tests of whole sediments (Corophium colo), sea urchin fertilisation and larval development tests of pore waters (Heliocidaris tuberculata) and microbial bioluminescence (Microtox®) tests of solvent extracts and pore waters. Toxicity in most tests correlated with concentrations of metallic contaminants, in particular, zinc, lead and copper. Organic contaminants did not correlate as significantly with toxicity. However, Heliocidaris tuberculata showed relationships with organochlorine compounds in samples with low to moderate metals contamination. Toxicity in the Microtox® solvent extract test appeared to be primarily influenced by the presence of sulfur. This study has no precedent in Australia and the results support the validity of using local indigenous species in toxicity tests of field-collected sediments. This toxicity/chemistry dataset may be used in evaluations of sediment quality guidelines recently introduced to Australia. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 correlation nationallicence toxicity nationallicence sediment nationallicence contaminant nationallicence Sydney Harbour nationallicence McCready S. Environmental Geology Group, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia aut Birch G. Environmental Geology Group, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia aut Long E. ERL Environmental, 3691 Cole Rd S., 97306, Salem, OR, U.S.A. aut Spyrakis G. Environmental Geology Group, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia aut Greely C. Environmental Geology Group, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia aut Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 120/1-3(2006-09-01), 187-220 0167-6369 120:1-3<187 2006 120 10661 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-005-9057-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-005-9057-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McCready S. Environmental Geology Group, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Birch G. Environmental Geology Group, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Long E. ERL Environmental, 3691 Cole Rd S., 97306, Salem, OR, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Spyrakis G. Environmental Geology Group, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Greely C. Environmental Geology Group, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 120/1-3(2006-09-01), 187-220 0167-6369 120:1-3<187 2006 120 10661 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer