Sentence examples for bioaccumulation up from inspiring English sources

When persistent pesticides such as organochlorines are used in food production, the chances of bioconcentration by plants and organisms in the environment and bioaccumulation up the food chain are increased.

Avoid apricot scrubs and plastic microbeads as the former will cause microtears and the latter contributes to environmental pollution and bioaccumulation up the food chain.

The Cr bioaccumulation was up to 11-fold greater in roots than in the aerial parts.

The translocation and bioaccumulation factors increased up to 750  μg L−1 Cd in the hydroponics culture).

Eating turtle eggs or meat can cause serious illness due to harmful bacteria, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Serratia marcescens, and high levels of toxic metals that build up through bioaccumulation.

POPs are environmentally and biologically persistent, which leads to their bioaccumulation and biomagnification up the food chain.

Bottom-up forcing of bioaccumulation was evidenced by MeHg concentrations in larval dragonflies, which were near the maxima for dragonflies sampled concurrently from five other national park units in the region.

Phytoremediation, the use of plants for environmental restoration, exploits naturally occurring uptake capabilities of plant root systems, together with the translocation, bioaccumulation, or detoxifying abilities to clean up the surrounding environments.

Mercury is considered one of the most toxic elements in almost all forms even in low concentrations as a result of bioavailability, mobility and high bioaccumulation factor (biomagnification factor up to 106 in the food chain) [1 3].

Despite bans and restrictions on OCP use in the United States over the past several decades, the U.S. population still has detectable serum concentrations of OCPs because of the environmental persistence of the chemicals and their bioaccumulation within organisms and up the food chain [ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDCC) 2009].

In terms of biocompatibility, when using a polyvinyl alcohol capping agent, AuNPs do not show toxicity in zebrafish, despite being taken up into embryos and evidence of bioaccumulation [8].