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Organochlorine and total mercury in bivalve Anadara tuberculosa and other species from the Nicoya Gulf, Costa Rica in 1988
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de la Cruz E.; Delbeke K.; Fundamental and Applied Marine Ecology Post Graduate Program (FAME); Laboratory of Ecotoxicology. VUB: Belgium; (2016): Organochlorine and total mercury in bivalve Anadara tuberculosa and other species from the Nicoya Gulf, Costa Rica in 1988. https://doi.org/10.14284/226
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This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
Contamination level by PCB, organochlorines pesticides and mercury for Anadara tuberculosa and other species at Punta Morales, Puerto Alto and Jicaral during 2 sampling periods in 1988. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: de la Cruz, E. (1989). Organochlorine and total mercury in the Anadara tuberculosa bivalve and other species from the Nicoya Gulf, Costa Rica. MSc Thesis. KBIN: Brussel. 59 pp. more
Evaluation of the contamination level at three different localities of the Nicoya Gulf (Punta Morales, Puerto Alto and Jicaral). To fulfill this purpose a filter feeder bivalve mollusc Anadara tuberculosa (Arcidae) was chosen. In order to compare the contamination levels between the 3 places standardization was done on sex, maturity, size, lipid contents and sampling period (September and December 1988). Samples were cut in pieces and well mixed and then subsampled 3 times for mercury analysis, PCB and organochlorine and dryweight and carbon analysis.
Evaluation of the contamination level at three different localities of the Nicoya Gulf (Punta Morales, Puerto Alto and Jicaral). To fulfill this purpose a filter feeder bivalve mollusc Anadara tuberculosa (Arcidae) was chosen. In order to compare the contamination levels between the 3 places standardization was done on sex, maturity, size, lipid contents and sampling period (September and December 1988). Samples were cut in pieces and well mixed and then subsampled 3 times for mercury analysis, PCB and organochlorine and dryweight and carbon analysis.
Scope
Themes:
Environmental quality/pollution
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Contamination, Organochlorine pesticides, PCB, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, ISE, Costa Rica, Gulf of Nicoya, Bivalvia
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -85,1167; MinLat: 9,7535 - MaxLong: -84,6857; MaxLat: 10,0747 [WGS84]
Coordinates: MinLong: -85,1167; MinLat: 9,7535 - MaxLong: -84,6857; MaxLat: 10,0747 [WGS84]
ISE, Costa Rica, Gulf of Nicoya
Temporal coverage
September 1988 - December 1988
Taxonomic coverage
Bivalvia [WoRMS]
Parameters
Aldrin, Carbon (C), Heptachlor, Lindane, Lipids, Organochlorines, PCB 101, PCB 118, PCB 138, PCB 153, PCB 28, PCB 52, Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) concentrations, Total mercury (Hg), Wet weight
Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, data manager
de la Cruz, Elba, data creator, data creator
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EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
Publication
Based on this dataset
de la Cruz, E. (1989). Organochlorine and total mercury in the Anadara tuberculosa bivalve and other species from the Nicoya Gulf, Costa Rica. MSc Thesis. KBIN: Brussel. 59 pp.
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: lab experiment
Metadatarecord created: 2015-07-09
Information last updated: 2016-10-05
