Sentence examples for trophic magnification from inspiring English sources
Bioaccumulation and trophic magnification of pharmaceuticals and endocrine disruptors in a Mediterranean river food web.
Hallanger, I. G. et al. Seasonality in contaminant accumulation in Arctic marine pelagic food webs using trophic magnification factor as a measure of bioaccumulation.
Trophic magnification factors (TMFs) are field-based measurements of the bioaccumulation behavior of chemicals in food-webs.
Rather, the regression models indicated that trophic dilution of cVMS, not trophic magnification, occurred across the sampled food web.
Yet, despite a shallower overall trophic magnification slope, large river-resident fish had higher Hg concentrations owing to a greater biomagnification of Hg between small and large fishes.
These migrant fishes were connected to a food chain with greater Hg trophic magnification relative to the resident fish of the river and delta.
Heavy metals have received considerable attention due to their toxicity, long-term persistence, bioaccumulation, and bio-magnification at various trophic levels (Ololade et al., 2008).
An alternative approach to characterizing TMF in a prospective way would be to make use of food-web model ecosystems such as those used by Metcalf et al. [98] to provide a physical model of trophic transfer (algae-arthropods-fish) and an estimate of magnification in the food-chain.
