The bioenergetics of persistent organic pollutant bioaccumulation in freshwater fishes
Gordon Paterson, Michigan Technological University, [email protected]
Abstract
Throughout his career, Doug Haffner’s research has spanned nearly all trophic levels of Great Lakes food webs, encompassed nutrient and pollutant management programs, and even helped coin a new environmental process in the phenomenon of biomagnification. A central concept across Doug’s pollutant research program considers how both fisheries bioenergetics and the bioaccumulation of persistent organic pollutants track the acquisition, assimilation and fate of consumed energy. This presentation will synthesize Doug’s research on persistent organic pollutants and how, through the use of both empirical and experimental research on Great Lakes fishes and food-webs, his research has improved our approaches for modeling and understanding persistent organic pollutant bioaccumulation in these ecosystems. Specifically, this body of research includes quantifying how biological and ecological characteristics such as species poikilothermy, body size, ecology, and growth contribute to the magnitude and patterns of pollutant bioaccumulation quantified in Great Lakes species.
1. Keyword
bioaccumulation
2. Keyword
PCBs
3. Keyword
fish