Bioaccumulation of lead and arsenic in plant and animal tissue at British Columbia's Canada Coast Guard light stations.

摘要

Lead and arsenic contamination at several of British Columbia's Canada Coast Guard lightstations was examined to try to predict a trend in movement of these metals from soils into the environment by comparing and correlating the soil concentrations with four variables: groundwater; mussel tissue bioaccumulation; leachate; and vegetation bioaccumulation.; Statistical analysis demonstrated no significant relationship between total soil metal concentrations and metal concentrations in groundwater or mussel tissue, but it did find that there is a linear relationship between total soil metal concentrations and metal concentrations in leachate and vegetation.