caa a22 4500 469029994 CHVBK 20180323132740.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00419568 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00419568 Mercury bioaccumulation in organisms from three Puerto Rican estuaries [Elektronische Daten] [Joanna Burger, Keith Cooper, Jorge Saliva, D. Gochfeld, D. Lipsky, Michael Gochfeld] We analyzed mercury levels in shrimp (Palaemonetes sp.), Blue Crabs (Callinectes sp.), fish (Tarpon Megalops atlantica and Tilapia Tilapia mossambica), lizards (Ameiva exsul), Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) and Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) in three estuaries in Puerto Rico in 1988. There were no quantifiable concentrations greater than the method detection limit of mercury in shrimp, crabs and lizards from any site. Mercury levels were also below detection limits in Tilapia, except for specimens collected at Frontera Creek, allegedly contaminated with mercury. However, mercury levels ranged from 92-238 μg/kg (wet weight) in Tarpon, a predaceous fish that feeds on smaller fish. Few of the birds had detectable levels of mercury. Our results indicate relatively low concentrations of mercury in biota collected in all of the three estuaries at most trophic levels, although 10 of 12 Tarpon fillet samples from Frontera had detectable mercury compared to 3 of 12 fillet samples for the other two lagoons. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Burger Joanna Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, 08855, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA aut Cooper Keith Environmental and Occupational Health Science Institute, 08855, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA aut Saliva Jorge Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, 08855, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA aut Gochfeld D. Department of Zoology, University of Hawaii, 96822, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA aut Lipsky D. Dynamac Inc., 07024, FT Lee, New Jersey, USA aut Gochfeld Michael Environmental and Occupational Health Science Institute, 08855, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA aut Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 22/3(1992-09-01), 181-197 0167-6369 22:3<181 1992 22 10661 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00419568 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00419568 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Burger Joanna Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, 08855, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cooper Keith Environmental and Occupational Health Science Institute, 08855, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Saliva Jorge Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, 08855, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gochfeld D. Department of Zoology, University of Hawaii, 96822, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lipsky D. Dynamac Inc., 07024, FT Lee, New Jersey, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gochfeld Michael Environmental and Occupational Health Science Institute, 08855, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 22/3(1992-09-01), 181-197 0167-6369 22:3<181 1992 22 10661 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer