Sentence examples for significant bioaccumulation from inspiring English sources

We documented significant bioaccumulation and slow depuration of freshwater microcystins by marine oysters, clams, snails and mussels, with gastrointestinal tissue concentrations up to 107 times greater than adjacent seawater.

In spite of these low environmental levels, there is significant bioaccumulation of these chemicals in tissues of mussels and fish, and just several months ago Nakata (2005) reported significant bioaccumulation in cetaceans.

This is an arbitrary value and we suspect that this value may be conservative with little prospect of significant bioaccumulation for compounds lower than log  Kow 4.

EDCs undergo significant bioaccumulation (Lalah et al. 2003), and various forms of metabolites can be detected in plasma and urine samples, the levels of which have served as a reference for estimating the levels of exposure.

In monkeys, the maximum unconjugated serum dBPA concentration of 4 ng/mL was reached 1 hr after feeding and declined to low levels by 24 hr, with no significant bioaccumulation after seven daily doses.

Our analysis of hair mercury concentrations in Lake Chapala suggests significant bioaccumulation in women of child bearing age in this population and raises the potential for neurodevelopmental impact on their offspring.

Fish contributed little; most of the fish consumed here are farmed species that grow rapidly and eat a diet that precludes significant methylmercury bioaccumulation.

This small difference raised the concern of whether the tiny difference could be magnified to a significant difference by bioaccumulation in the food chain.

PS microparticles had no significant effect on bioaccumulation of PCBs in lugworms.

Heavy metals are nonbiodegradable hazardous priority pollutants (Tewari et al. 2005; Bayrak et al. 2006) having significant properties of bioaccumulation and biomagnification.

The presence of 1000 mg/L Na+ and Ca2+, or 50 mg/L Cd2+ or Pb2+ did not have a significant effect on Ni2+ bioaccumulation, while Mg2+, Hg2+ and Cu2+ posed a severe adverse influence on Ni2+ uptake by genetically engineered E. coli.