Metal Levels in Delaware Bay Horseshoe Crab Eggs from the Surface Reflect Metals in Egg Clutches Laid beneath the Sand

• Published in: Toxics
• Main Author: Burger, Joanna
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI 2023
• Subjects: Article; Thumb; Arenaria interpres; Calidris canutus; Red Knot
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10386046/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37505579; https://doi.org/10.3390/toxics11070614

Understanding variations in metal levels in biota geographically and under different environmental conditions is essential to determining risk to organisms themselves and to their predators. It is often difficult to determine food chain relationships because predators may eat several different prey...