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Seasonal variation in copper and zinc concentrations in three talitrid amphipods (Crustacea)

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Cu and Zn concentrations were determined for three talitrid amphipods, Orchestia gammarellus (Pallas), O. mediterranea Costa and Talitrus saltator (Montagu), collected at two-monthly intervals in 1987 from sites on Great Cumbrae Island, Firth of Clyde, Scotland. To account for size effects, log transformed Cu and Zn concentrations were regressed against log dry weight for each bimonthly sample of each species, and compared by analysis of covariance. Copper concentrations in O. gammarellus were significantly raised in March 1987, and lowered in November 1987. Copper concentrations in O. mediterranea and T. saltator were significantly lowered in November 1987. Cu concentrations differed interspecifically in the order O. gammarellus > O. mediterranea > T. saltator. There was no significant intraspecific seasonal variation in zinc concentration in any of the three species. Zn concentrations differed interspecifically in the order T. saltator > O. gammarellus > O. mediterranea.

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  1. Centre for Research in Aquatic Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Queen Mary College, Mile End Rd, E1 4NS, London, UK

    P. S. Rainbow

  2. University Marine Biological Station, KA28 OEG, Millport, Isle of Cumbrae, Scotland, UK

    P. G. Moore

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Rainbow, P.S., Moore, P.G. Seasonal variation in copper and zinc concentrations in three talitrid amphipods (Crustacea). Hydrobiologia 196, 65–72 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00008893

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