PMID- 25912805
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160226
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1879-1298 (Electronic)
IS  - 0045-6535 (Linking)
VI  - 134
DP  - 2015 Sep
TI  - Relative contribution of persistent organic pollutants to marine phytoplankton 
      biomass dynamics in the North Sea and the Kattegat.
PG  - 76-83
LID - S0045-6535(15)00328-8 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2015.03.084 [doi]
AB  - In this paper, we use concentrations of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and 
      of chlorophyll a to infer POP-induced effects on marine primary production in the 
      Kattegat and the North Sea between the 1990s and the 2000s. To do so, we modelled 
      phytoplankton dynamics using four classical drivers (light and nutrient 
      availability, temperature and zooplankton grazing) and tested whether extending 
      this model with a POP-induced phytoplankton growth limitation term improved model 
      fit to observed chlorophyll a concentrations. Including monitored concentrations 
      of PCBs and pesticides did not lead to a better model fit, suggesting that 
      POP-induced growth limitation of marine phytoplankton in the North Sea and the 
      Kattegat is small compared to the limitations caused by the classical drivers. In 
      an attempt to more fully represent the multitude of POPs in the marine 
      environment, the monitored concentrations were multiplied with a factor 10 and 
      100. Under these two configurations, region-specific contributions of POPs in the 
      phytoplankton growth limitation were found. The inferred contribution of POPs to 
      phytoplankton growth limitation was ca. 1% in Belgian marine waters, but in the 
      Kattegat POPs explained ca. 10% of the phytoplankton growth limitation. These 
      results suggest that there are regional differences in the contribution of POPs 
      to the phytoplankton growth limitation.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Everaert, Gert
AU  - Everaert G
AD  - Ghent University, Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology and Aquatic Ecology, J. 
      Plateaustraat 22, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium. Electronic address: 
      gert.everaert@ugent.be.
FAU - De Laender, Frederik
AU  - De Laender F
AD  - Universite de Namur, Research Unit in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, 
      Laboratory of Environmental Ecosystem Ecology, Rue de Bruxelles 61, B-5000 Namur, 
      Belgium.
FAU - Goethals, Peter L M
AU  - Goethals PL
AD  - Ghent University, Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology and Aquatic Ecology, J. 
      Plateaustraat 22, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium.
FAU - Janssen, Colin R
AU  - Janssen CR
AD  - Ghent University, Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology and Aquatic Ecology, J. 
      Plateaustraat 22, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20150424
PL  - England
TA  - Chemosphere
JT  - Chemosphere
JID - 0320657
RN  - 0 (Pesticides)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
RN  - 1406-65-1 (Chlorophyll)
RN  - 22309-13-3 (chlorophyll a')
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
RN  - YF5Q9EJC8Y (Chlorophyll A)
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Biomass
MH  - Chlorophyll/analogs & derivatives/analysis
MH  - Chlorophyll A
MH  - *Environmental Monitoring
MH  - North Sea
MH  - Pesticides/analysis/toxicity
MH  - Phytoplankton/growth & development/*physiology
MH  - Polychlorinated Biphenyls/analysis/toxicity
MH  - Temperature
MH  - Water Pollutants, Chemical/analysis/*toxicity
MH  - Zooplankton
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Ecosystem model
OT  - Impact
OT  - Monitoring data
OT  - PCBs and pesticides
OT  - Primary production
EDAT- 2015/04/29 06:00
MHDA- 2016/02/27 06:00
CRDT- 2015/04/28 06:00
PHST- 2014/10/23 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2015/03/19 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2015/03/23 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2015/04/28 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/04/29 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/02/27 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0045-6535(15)00328-8 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2015.03.084 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Chemosphere. 2015 Sep;134:76-83. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2015.03.084. Epub 
      2015 Apr 24.