"Non-traditional" stable isotopes applied to the study of trace metal contaminants in anthropized marine environments

Type Article
Date 2022-02
Language English
Author(s) Ferreira Araujo Daniel1, Knoery JoelORCID1, Briant NicolasORCID1, Vigier Nathalie2, Ponzevera EmmanuelORCID1
Affiliation(s) 1 : Ifremer, RBE/CCEM, F-44000 Nantes, France
2 : Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche sur Mer (LOV), IMEV, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, France
Source Marine Pollution Bulletin (0025-326X) (Elsevier BV), 2022-02 , Vol. 175 , P. 113398 (9p.)
DOI 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113398
WOS© Times Cited 12
Keyword(s) Marine pollution, Multi collector ICP-MS, Metal biogeochemistry, Isotope tracer, Metal stable isotopes
Abstract

The advent of Multicollector ICP-MS advent inaugurated the analysis of new metal isotope systems, the so-called “non-traditional” isotopes. They are now available tools to study geochemical and ecotoxicological aspects of marine metal contamination and hence, to push the frontiers of our knowledge. However, such applications are still in their infancy, and an accessible state-of-the-art describing main applications, obstacles, gaps, and directions for further development was missing from the literature. This paper fills this gap and aims to encourage the marine scientific community to explore the contributions of this newly available information for the fields of chemical risk assessment, biomonitoring, and trophic transfer of metal contaminants. In the current “Anthropocene” epoch, metal contamination will continue to threaten marine aquatic ecosystems, and “non-traditional” isotopes can be a valuable tool to detect human-induced changes across time-space involving metal contaminants, and their interaction with marine biota.

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