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Trace Metals in Microcrustaceans and Brazilian Waterweed from a Contaminated Chilean Wetland Using Total Reflection X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry

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The trace element content of individual copepod specimens and of the Brazilian water weed (Egeria densa) from a metal-contaminated wetland in Southern Chile were determined using total reflection X-ray fluorescence spectrometry. Sampling of the water and the organisms was carried out at three sampling sites during 2004. Enhanced concentrations of dissolved Fe and Mn were found in the column water and in the pore water. The Fe content in the benthic copepods was significantly elevated compared to other aquatic organisms from different Chilean lakes. Regarding E. densa, healthy (green coloured) plants showed mass fractions of Fe, Mn, Ni, Cu and Zn which were typical for uncontaminated systems. In contrast, damaged (brownish coloured) plants exhibited very high Fe and Mn concentrations indicative of contamination or processes which changed the element load from the environment to the plant.

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  1. Universidad Austral de Chile, Instituto de Zoologia, Casilla 567, Valdivia, Chile

    Stefan Woelfl & Francisco Bravo

  2. Department River Ecology Magdeburg, UFZ Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, Brückstrasse 3a, D-39114, Magdeburg, Germany

    Margarete Mages

  3. Universidad Católica de Temuco, Escuela de Ciencias Ambientales, Facultad de Ciencias, Montt 056, Temuco, Chile

    Francisco Encina

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Woelfl, S., Mages, M., Encina, F. et al. Trace Metals in Microcrustaceans and Brazilian Waterweed from a Contaminated Chilean Wetland Using Total Reflection X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry. Microchim Acta 154, 261–268 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-006-0519-8

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