Modelling PCB-153 in northern ecosystems across time, space, and species using the nested exposure model

There is concern over possible effects on ecosystems and humans from exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and chemicals with similar properties. The main objective of this study was to develop, evaluate, and apply the Nested Exposure Model (NEM) designed to simulate the link between glob...

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Published in:Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts
Main Authors: Krogseth, Ingjerd Sunde, Breivik, Knut, Frantzen, Sylvia, Nilsen, Bente Merete, Eckhardt, Sabine, Nøst, Therese Haugdahl, Wania, Frank
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Royal Society of Chemistry 2023
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10037/31521
https://doi.org/10.1039/D2EM00439A
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spelling ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/31521 2023-11-05T03:39:25+01:00 Modelling PCB-153 in northern ecosystems across time, space, and species using the nested exposure model Krogseth, Ingjerd Sunde Breivik, Knut Frantzen, Sylvia Nilsen, Bente Merete Eckhardt, Sabine Nøst, Therese Haugdahl Wania, Frank 2023-10-06 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/31521 https://doi.org/10.1039/D2EM00439A eng eng Royal Society of Chemistry Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts Krogseth, Breivik, Frantzen, Nilsen, Eckhardt, Nøst, Wania. Modelling PCB-153 in northern ecosystems across time, space, and species using the nested exposure model. Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts. 2023 FRIDAID 2183186 doi:10.1039/D2EM00439A 2050-7887 2050-7895 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/31521 Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) openAccess Copyright 2023 The Royal Society of Chemistry https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed publishedVersion 2023 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.1039/D2EM00439A 2023-10-11T23:07:52Z There is concern over possible effects on ecosystems and humans from exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and chemicals with similar properties. The main objective of this study was to develop, evaluate, and apply the Nested Exposure Model (NEM) designed to simulate the link between global emissions and resulting ecosystem exposure while accounting for variation in time and space. NEM, using environmental and biological data, global emissions, and physicochemical properties as input, was used to estimate PCB-153 concentrations in seawater and biota of the Norwegian marine environment from 1930 to 2020. These concentrations were compared to measured concentrations in (i) seawater, (ii) an Arctic marine food web comprising zooplankton, fish and marine mammals, and (iii) Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) and Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) from large baseline studies and monitoring programs. NEM reproduced PCB-153 concentrations in seawater, the Arctic food web, and Norwegian fish within a factor of 0.1–31, 0.14–3.1, and 0.09–21, respectively. The model also successfully reproduced measured trophic magnification factors for PCB-153 at Svalbard as well as geographical variations in PCB-153 burden in Atlantic cod between the Skagerrak, North Sea, Norwegian Sea, and Barents Sea, but estimated a steeper decline in PCB-153 concentration in herring and cod during the last decades than observed. Using the evaluated model with various emission scenarios showed the important contribution of European and global primary emissions for the PCB-153 load in fish from Norwegian marine offshore areas. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic atlantic cod Barents Sea Gadus morhua Norwegian Sea Svalbard Zooplankton University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts
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description There is concern over possible effects on ecosystems and humans from exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and chemicals with similar properties. The main objective of this study was to develop, evaluate, and apply the Nested Exposure Model (NEM) designed to simulate the link between global emissions and resulting ecosystem exposure while accounting for variation in time and space. NEM, using environmental and biological data, global emissions, and physicochemical properties as input, was used to estimate PCB-153 concentrations in seawater and biota of the Norwegian marine environment from 1930 to 2020. These concentrations were compared to measured concentrations in (i) seawater, (ii) an Arctic marine food web comprising zooplankton, fish and marine mammals, and (iii) Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) and Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) from large baseline studies and monitoring programs. NEM reproduced PCB-153 concentrations in seawater, the Arctic food web, and Norwegian fish within a factor of 0.1–31, 0.14–3.1, and 0.09–21, respectively. The model also successfully reproduced measured trophic magnification factors for PCB-153 at Svalbard as well as geographical variations in PCB-153 burden in Atlantic cod between the Skagerrak, North Sea, Norwegian Sea, and Barents Sea, but estimated a steeper decline in PCB-153 concentration in herring and cod during the last decades than observed. Using the evaluated model with various emission scenarios showed the important contribution of European and global primary emissions for the PCB-153 load in fish from Norwegian marine offshore areas.
format Article in Journal/Newspaper
author Krogseth, Ingjerd Sunde
Breivik, Knut
Frantzen, Sylvia
Nilsen, Bente Merete
Eckhardt, Sabine
Nøst, Therese Haugdahl
Wania, Frank
spellingShingle Krogseth, Ingjerd Sunde
Breivik, Knut
Frantzen, Sylvia
Nilsen, Bente Merete
Eckhardt, Sabine
Nøst, Therese Haugdahl
Wania, Frank
Modelling PCB-153 in northern ecosystems across time, space, and species using the nested exposure model
author_facet Krogseth, Ingjerd Sunde
Breivik, Knut
Frantzen, Sylvia
Nilsen, Bente Merete
Eckhardt, Sabine
Nøst, Therese Haugdahl
Wania, Frank
author_sort Krogseth, Ingjerd Sunde
title Modelling PCB-153 in northern ecosystems across time, space, and species using the nested exposure model
title_short Modelling PCB-153 in northern ecosystems across time, space, and species using the nested exposure model
title_full Modelling PCB-153 in northern ecosystems across time, space, and species using the nested exposure model
title_fullStr Modelling PCB-153 in northern ecosystems across time, space, and species using the nested exposure model
title_full_unstemmed Modelling PCB-153 in northern ecosystems across time, space, and species using the nested exposure model
title_sort modelling pcb-153 in northern ecosystems across time, space, and species using the nested exposure model
publisher Royal Society of Chemistry
publishDate 2023
url https://hdl.handle.net/10037/31521
https://doi.org/10.1039/D2EM00439A
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atlantic cod
Barents Sea
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Norwegian Sea
Svalbard
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Krogseth, Breivik, Frantzen, Nilsen, Eckhardt, Nøst, Wania. Modelling PCB-153 in northern ecosystems across time, space, and species using the nested exposure model. Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts. 2023
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