Growth rate as a factor confounding the use of the dogwhelk Nucella lapillus as biomonitor of heavy metal contamination

• Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Main Authors: Leung, K.M.Y., Morgan, I.J., Wu, R.S.S., Lau, T.C., Svavarsson, J., Furness, R.W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2001
• Subjects: QL Zoology; GE Environmental Sciences; Loch Fyne; Dogwhelk; Nucella lapillus
• Online Access: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/4240/; https://doi.org/10.3354/meps221145

Growth rate of individually tagged dogwhelks Nucella lapillus (L.) was measured in free-living individuals at 3 sites of differing heavy metal contamination in the Firth of Clyde, west Scotland. Condition index (CI), concentrations of metals (Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn), metallothionein (NIT), RNA (the RNA/p...