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The aim of the project is to recognize the share of individual forms (the bioavailable labile ones and the stable ones) of toxic Hg in the benthic organisms inhabiting the temperate marine ecosystem. The research will include macrozoobenthos and the elements of its diet: the suspended and sediment organic matter, micro- and macrophytobenthos, phyto- and zooplankton. This will allow determining the trophic transfer and biomagnification potential of labile Hg forms in the initial trophic levels. This study will also consider the impact of factors such as the amount and type of organic matter, the physical and chemical parameters of the surrounding environment, the biological indicators of investigated organisms, as well as the ecological structure of the food web on the share of Hg forms and their transfer along the marine food chain. An important and unexplored aspect of Hg fractionation in the benthic organism is seasonality. Therefore the present research will also compare the obtained results in individual seasons: summer, fall, winter and spring.
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- Project's acronym:
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- Financial Program Name:
- National Science Center
- Agreement:
- 2018/31/N/ST10/00214 z dnia 2019-07-03
- Realisation period:
- 2019-08-07 - 2022-08-06
- Research team leader:
- dr Agnieszka Jedruch
- Team members:
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- Supervisor dr hab Magdalena Bełdowska
- Realised in:
- Uniwersytet Gdański
- Project's value:
- 201 700.00 PLN
- Request type:
- National Research Programmes
- Domestic:
- Domestic project
- Verified by:
- No verification
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