Can turbidity caused by Corophium volutator (Pallas) activity be used to assess sediment toxicity rapidly?

Briggs, Andrew D., Greenwood, Naomi and Grant, Alastair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1147-2375 (2003) Can turbidity caused by Corophium volutator (Pallas) activity be used to assess sediment toxicity rapidly? Marine Environmental Research, 55 (3). pp. 181-192.

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Abstract

The standard toxicity test organism, Corophium volutator, exhibits a behavioural response to contaminated sediments that causes increased turbidity of overlying water. We quantify the effects of this response to an estuarine sediment spiked with copper and hydrocarbon contaminated sediments from an oil installation in the North Sea. Turbidity measured 24 h after the start of a toxicity test shows a strong relationship with contaminant concentrations and with mortality after 10 days. Turbidity measurements can therefore give a rapid indication of sediment toxicity, permitting a reduction in storage time of sediments to be used in dilution series and toxicity identification evaluation (TIE) tests, reducing the likelihood of contaminants degrading prior to testing.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	corophium volutator,copper,hydrocarbons,turbidity,sediment toxicity
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Collaborative Centre for Sustainable Use of the Seas Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Biology Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Resources, Sustainability and Governance (former - to 2018) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (former - to 2017)
Depositing User:	Rosie Cullington
Date Deposited:	20 May 2011 10:01
Last Modified:	07 Mar 2023 14:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/31155
DOI:	10.1016/S0141-1136(02)00213-1

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