An assessment of two decades of trace metals monitoring in wild mussels from the Northwest Atlantic and Cantabrian coastal areas of Spain, 1991-2011
Since 1991, the Instituto Español de Oceanografía has monitored the concentrations of trace metals in wild mussels from the north (Cantabrian Sea) and northwest (Atlantic) coasts of Spain to define geographical distributions and temporal trends. While Cu, Zn and As concentrations presented fairly un...
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ftieo:oai:repositorio.ieo.es:10508/2358 2023-05-15T17:32:52+02:00 An assessment of two decades of trace metals monitoring in wild mussels from the Northwest Atlantic and Cantabrian coastal areas of Spain, 1991-2011 Besada, V. (Victoria) Sericano, J. (José) Schultze, F. (Fernando) 1991-2011 Atlantic Ocean North Atlantic Northwest Atlantic Cantabrian Sea 2014 http://hdl.handle.net/10508/2358 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2014.05.024 eng eng Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo 0160-4120 http://hdl.handle.net/10508/2358 Environment International, 71. 2014: 1-12 doi:10.1016/j.envint.2014.05.024 Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ open access CC-BY-NC-ND research article VoR 2014 ftieo https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2014.05.024 2023-03-08T00:50:48Z Since 1991, the Instituto Español de Oceanografía has monitored the concentrations of trace metals in wild mussels from the north (Cantabrian Sea) and northwest (Atlantic) coasts of Spain to define geographical distributions and temporal trends. While Cu, Zn and As concentrations presented fairly uniform geographical distributions, Hg and Pb concentrations were higher in mussels from the Cantabrian sea region as a result of historical anthropogenic activities. Cd, on the other hand, appeared to be more affected by natural processes on the northwest Atlantic coast (i.e., upwelling) than by human activity. Approximately 70% of the paired observations showed downward trends, 50% of these significant, with time. An improvement in environmental conditions along the northern coasts of Spain is evident despite that some metal levels resulted above the Background Assessment Concentrations given by OSPAR to assess potentially harmful occurrences. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Northwest Atlantic Instituto Español de Oceanografía: e-IEO Environment International 71 1 12 |
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Since 1991, the Instituto Español de Oceanografía has monitored the concentrations of trace metals in wild mussels from the north (Cantabrian Sea) and northwest (Atlantic) coasts of Spain to define geographical distributions and temporal trends. While Cu, Zn and As concentrations presented fairly uniform geographical distributions, Hg and Pb concentrations were higher in mussels from the Cantabrian sea region as a result of historical anthropogenic activities. Cd, on the other hand, appeared to be more affected by natural processes on the northwest Atlantic coast (i.e., upwelling) than by human activity. Approximately 70% of the paired observations showed downward trends, 50% of these significant, with time. An improvement in environmental conditions along the northern coasts of Spain is evident despite that some metal levels resulted above the Background Assessment Concentrations given by OSPAR to assess potentially harmful occurrences. |
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Besada, V. (Victoria) Sericano, J. (José) Schultze, F. (Fernando) An assessment of two decades of trace metals monitoring in wild mussels from the Northwest Atlantic and Cantabrian coastal areas of Spain, 1991-2011 |
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Besada, V. (Victoria) Sericano, J. (José) Schultze, F. (Fernando) |
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Besada, V. (Victoria) |
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An assessment of two decades of trace metals monitoring in wild mussels from the Northwest Atlantic and Cantabrian coastal areas of Spain, 1991-2011 |
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An assessment of two decades of trace metals monitoring in wild mussels from the Northwest Atlantic and Cantabrian coastal areas of Spain, 1991-2011 |
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An assessment of two decades of trace metals monitoring in wild mussels from the Northwest Atlantic and Cantabrian coastal areas of Spain, 1991-2011 |
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An assessment of two decades of trace metals monitoring in wild mussels from the Northwest Atlantic and Cantabrian coastal areas of Spain, 1991-2011 |
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An assessment of two decades of trace metals monitoring in wild mussels from the Northwest Atlantic and Cantabrian coastal areas of Spain, 1991-2011 |
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assessment of two decades of trace metals monitoring in wild mussels from the northwest atlantic and cantabrian coastal areas of spain, 1991-2011 |
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North Atlantic Northwest Atlantic |
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0160-4120 http://hdl.handle.net/10508/2358 Environment International, 71. 2014: 1-12 doi:10.1016/j.envint.2014.05.024 |
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