Importance of accurate trophic level determination by nitrogen isotope of amino acids for trophic magnification studies: A review
- Authors
- Won, Eun-Ji; Choi, Bohyung; Hong, Seongjin; Khim, Jong Seong; Shin, Kyung-Hoon
- Issue Date
- Jul-2018
- Publisher
- Pergamon Press Ltd.
- Keywords
- Biomagnification; Trophic magnification factors; Metals; POPs; Trophic levels; CSIA-AAs
- Citation
- Environmental Pollution, v.238, pp 677 - 690
- Pages
- 14
- Indexed
- SCI
SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- Environmental Pollution
- Volume
- 238
- Start Page
- 677
- End Page
- 690
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/erica/handle/2021.sw.erica/5806
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.03.045
- ISSN
- 0269-7491
1873-6424
- Abstract
- During the last several decades, persistent organic pollutants and metals cause great concern for their toxicity in organisms as well as for their bioaccumulation and/or trophic transfer through the food chains in ecosystems. A large number of studies therefore have focused on the trophic levels of organisms to illustrate food web structure, as a critical component in the study of pollutant dynamics and bio-magnification. The trends in biomagnification of pollutants in food webs indeed provide fundamental information about the properties and fates of pollutants in ecosystems. The trophic magnification supports the establishment of a reliable trophic structure, which can further aid the understanding of the transport and exposure routes of contaminants in accumulation and risk assessments. Recently, efforts to interpret the food web structure using carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios have contributed to better understanding of the fate of pollutants in the ecosystem. However, it is known that this isotope analysis of bulk ones has many weaknesses, particularly for uncertainties on the estimate of trophic levels and therefore of magnification factors for studied organisms, enough to support a regulatory interpretation. In this review, we collate studies that investigated biomagnification characteristics of pollutants in aquatic ecosystems, along with calculated trophic magnification factors. Moreover, we introduce a novel approach, compound-specific stable isotope analysis of nitrogen in amino acids, to establish reliable food web structures and accurate trophic levels for biomagnification studies. This method promises to provide sound results for interpreting the influence of the pollutant in organisms, along with their bioaccumulation and magnification characteristics, as well as that in ecosystem. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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