Horizontal and vertical food web structure drives trace element trophic transfer in Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica

• Published in: Environmental Pollution
• Main Authors: Signa, Geraldina, Calizza, Edoardo, Costantini, Maria Letizia, Tramati, Cecilia, Sporta Caputi, Simona, Mazzola, Antonio, Rossi, Loreto, Vizzini, Salvatrice
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 2019
• Subjects: Biomagnification; Metal; Polar; Stable isotope; Sympagic algae; Toxicology; Pollution; Health; Toxicology and Mutagenesis; Settore BIO/07 - Ecologia; Ross Sea; Terra Nova Bay; Tethys Bay; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/351146; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2018.12.071

Despite a vast amount of literature has focused on trace element (TE) contamination in Antarctica during the last decades, the assessment of the main pathways driving TE transfer to the biota is still an overlooked issue. This limits the ability to predict how variations in sea-ice dynamics and prod...