Trophic position and individual feeding habits as drivers of differential PCB bioaccumulation in fish populations

• Published in: Science of The Total Environment
• Main Authors: Masset, T., Frossard, V., Perga, M.E., Cottin, N., Piot, C., Cachera, S., Naffrechoux, E.
• Other Authors: Laboratoire LCME / Equipe Chimie de l'Environnement (LCME_CE), Laboratoire de Chimie Moléculaire et Environnement (LCME), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry ), Centre Alpin de Recherche sur les Réseaux Trophiques et Ecosystèmes Limniques (CARRTEL), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry ), Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne (UNIL), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2019
• Subjects: Polychlorobiphenyls; Peri-alpine lake; Arctic charWhitefish; Bayesian mixing model; Biomagnification; [CHIM]Chemical Sciences; [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Alpine Lake; Arctic; Zooplankton
• Online Access: https://hal.univ-smb.fr/hal-02165156; https://hal.univ-smb.fr/hal-02165156/document; https://hal.univ-smb.fr/hal-02165156/file/S0048969719317255.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.196

International audience Despite PCBs being banned since the 1980's, some European peri-alpine lakes, and consequently their fish populations, are still contaminated by these xenobiotics. We investigated the relative contribution of physiological and trophic factors that could be implicated in fi...