AN ASSESSMENT OF VIABILITY FOR A NEW BIOINDICATOR OF HEAVY METAL POLLUTION IN THE SOUTHERN OCEAN: POTENTIAL OF THE ANTARCTIC SEASTAR ODONTASTER VALIDUS COMPARED TO THE WELL-STUDIED ANTARCTIC CLAM LATERNULA ELLIPTICA

• Main Author: Webb, Alison Louise
• Other Authors: Faculty of Science
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Plymouth 2006
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Austral; Rothera; Adelaide Island; South Cove; Antarc*; Antarctica; British Antarctic Survey
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10026.2/384

Concentrations of Fe, Zn, Cu. Cd, Mn, Cr, Pb, Co and N i were determined from acid digests of four tissue types of the Antarctic omnivorious seastar Odontaster validus and five tissue types of the clam Laternula elliptica, collected from four sites in the vicinity of Rothera Base, Adelaide Island, A...