Trace element concentrations among functional feeding groups in the estuarine food web in Middle Hempstead Bay, Long Island, New York

• Main Author: Livingston, Michaela
• Other Authors: Dutton, Jessica, Nowlin, Weston H., Green, Michael C.
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Estuarine; Estuary; Middle Hempstead Bay; South Shore Estuary Reserve; SSER; Trace element; Functional feeding group; FFG; Tissue distribution; Food web; Essential element; Nonessential element; Long Island; Terrapin; Common tern; Sterna hirundo
• Online Access: https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/15710

Estuaries are productive ecotones that are vulnerable to anthropogenic contamination due to human population density, overharvesting of marine resources, and an increase in urbanization and industrialization along coastlines. Most estuaries in the United States exhibit impaired water quality due to...