The Effect of Zinc on Survivability of Some Mysid, Decapod, and Copepod Species from Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan

摘要

The effects of Zn on two mysid, two copepod, and one decapod crustacean species from Peter the Great Bay are studied. Experiments have shown the lowest median lethal concentrations (LC_(50)) in the case of a 48-h exposure for juvenile mysids (221 μg Zn~(2+)/L) and the highest concentrations for juvenile grass shrimp (11 309 μg Zn~(2+)/L). The relationship of toxicoresistance with species-specific features, body size, and the ontogeny stage of test organisms, as well as with experimental conditions, including water temperature, has been confirmed.