TY - CPAPER T1 - In situ kinetics of mercury bioaccumulation in mytilus galloprovincialis estimated by transplantation experiments A1 - Casas,Stellio A1 - Cossa,Daniel A1 - Gonzalez,Jean-Louis A1 - Bacher,Cedric A1 - Andral,Bruno UR - https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/369/ KW - Transplantation KW - Heavy metals KW - Bioaccumulation KW - Mytilus galloprovincialis KW - Bioindicator N2 - Monitoring coastal contamination by trace metals pollution using mollusks bivalves as quantitative bioindicators is widely performed in many international biomonitoring programs. For this purpose, studying mercury dynamic in marine mussels is a reliable tool. In situ experiments on uptake and elimination kinetics were conducted in three Mediterranean sites, chosen on the basis of their contamination levels. Mussels were transplanted from a clean area to a highly contaminated one and then transferred back to a clean site. This approach makes it possible to define bioaccumulation factors and uptake and elimination rates consistently with the real environmental conditions. Y1 - 2004/07/02 CY - 7th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant SO - ICMPG Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 27- July 2, 2004 ID - 369 ER -