Monitoring of Hg sources in Arctic top predators: insights from isotopic analysis in captive hooded seals Cystophora cristata.
Arctic predators like true seals have been experiencing a strong increase in Hg levels in their tissues in the last 150 years. This is in contrast with other terrestrial animals or other parts of the world. Dietary Hg accumulates and biomagnifies in marine food webs in its most toxic form, monomethy...
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ftorbi:oai:orbi.ulg.ac.be:2268/243044 2024-04-21T08:00:51+00:00 Monitoring of Hg sources in Arctic top predators: insights from isotopic analysis in captive hooded seals Cystophora cristata. Pinzone, Marianna Tessier, Emmanuel Bérail, Sylvain Amouroux, David Das, Krishna FOCUS - Freshwater and OCeanic science Unit of reSearch - ULiège 2019-09-12 https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/243044 en eng https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/243044 info:hdl:2268/243044 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess ICMGP 2019 - 14th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Krakow, Poland [PL], from 08-09-2019 to 13-09-2019 Mercury stable isotopes Arctic Hooded seal Life sciences Environmental sciences & ecology Sciences du vivant Sciences de l’environnement & écologie conference paper not in proceedings http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_18cp info:eu-repo/semantics/conferencePaper 2019 ftorbi 2024-03-27T14:50:17Z Arctic predators like true seals have been experiencing a strong increase in Hg levels in their tissues in the last 150 years. This is in contrast with other terrestrial animals or other parts of the world. Dietary Hg accumulates and biomagnifies in marine food webs in its most toxic form, monomethylmercury (MMHg). Hg seven stables isotopes (196Hg, 198Hg, 199Hg, 200Hg, 201Hg, 202Hg and 204Hg) undergo both mass-dependent and mass-independent fractionation (MDF and MIF, respectively) as a result of abiotic and biotic reactions occurring in the environment and within the organism. For this reason, they are a promising tool for tracing Hg cycling in the natural environment. The interpretation of Hg isotopic data remain however a challenge, especially when taking into account species such as Arctic true seals, which have highly complex life styles and metabolism. In 2012, six pups of hooded seals Cystophora cristata were captured on the ice edge of the Greenland Sea and kept in captivity for 2 years. During this period, they were fed on a constant diet made of Norwegian herring Clupea harengus and vitamin complements. This allowed us to study Hg kinetic in an Arctic top predator without the influence of age, distribution and diet specialization. The main objective was to select the tissue in which the information about Hg pathways would be conserved, leading to the optimal tracing of Hg sources along the food web. Total Hg (THg) concentrations were determined on a Milestone direct mercury analyzer, while MeHg and IHg concentrations were determined by isotope dilution-gas chromatography-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometer (ID-GC-ICP-MS) following microwave-assisted extraction and aqueous phase derivatization. Mercury isotopic composition analysis was performed using cold vapor generation (CVG) with multicollector-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometer (MC-ICP-MS, Nu Instruments). The analysis was conducted in seal muscle, liver, hair, and kidney, plus muscle of herring. Hg speciation changed ... Conference Object Cystophora cristata Greenland Greenland Sea hooded seal University of Liège: ORBi (Open Repository and Bibliography) |
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Arctic predators like true seals have been experiencing a strong increase in Hg levels in their tissues in the last 150 years. This is in contrast with other terrestrial animals or other parts of the world. Dietary Hg accumulates and biomagnifies in marine food webs in its most toxic form, monomethylmercury (MMHg). Hg seven stables isotopes (196Hg, 198Hg, 199Hg, 200Hg, 201Hg, 202Hg and 204Hg) undergo both mass-dependent and mass-independent fractionation (MDF and MIF, respectively) as a result of abiotic and biotic reactions occurring in the environment and within the organism. For this reason, they are a promising tool for tracing Hg cycling in the natural environment. The interpretation of Hg isotopic data remain however a challenge, especially when taking into account species such as Arctic true seals, which have highly complex life styles and metabolism. In 2012, six pups of hooded seals Cystophora cristata were captured on the ice edge of the Greenland Sea and kept in captivity for 2 years. During this period, they were fed on a constant diet made of Norwegian herring Clupea harengus and vitamin complements. This allowed us to study Hg kinetic in an Arctic top predator without the influence of age, distribution and diet specialization. The main objective was to select the tissue in which the information about Hg pathways would be conserved, leading to the optimal tracing of Hg sources along the food web. Total Hg (THg) concentrations were determined on a Milestone direct mercury analyzer, while MeHg and IHg concentrations were determined by isotope dilution-gas chromatography-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometer (ID-GC-ICP-MS) following microwave-assisted extraction and aqueous phase derivatization. Mercury isotopic composition analysis was performed using cold vapor generation (CVG) with multicollector-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometer (MC-ICP-MS, Nu Instruments). The analysis was conducted in seal muscle, liver, hair, and kidney, plus muscle of herring. Hg speciation changed ... |
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Pinzone, Marianna Tessier, Emmanuel Bérail, Sylvain Amouroux, David Das, Krishna |
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Monitoring of Hg sources in Arctic top predators: insights from isotopic analysis in captive hooded seals Cystophora cristata. |
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Monitoring of Hg sources in Arctic top predators: insights from isotopic analysis in captive hooded seals Cystophora cristata. |
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Monitoring of Hg sources in Arctic top predators: insights from isotopic analysis in captive hooded seals Cystophora cristata. |
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Monitoring of Hg sources in Arctic top predators: insights from isotopic analysis in captive hooded seals Cystophora cristata. |
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Monitoring of Hg sources in Arctic top predators: insights from isotopic analysis in captive hooded seals Cystophora cristata. |
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