Articles | Volume 19, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-629-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-629-2022
Research article
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03 Feb 2022
Research article |  | 03 Feb 2022

Heavy metal uptake of nearshore benthic foraminifera during multi-metal culturing experiments

Sarina Schmidt, Ed C. Hathorne, Joachim Schönfeld, and Dieter Garbe-Schönberg

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The study addresses the potential of marine shell-forming organisms as proxy carriers for heavy metal contamination in the environment. The aim is to investigate if the incorporation of heavy metals is a direct function of their concentration in seawater. Culturing experiments with a metal mixture were carried out over a wide concentration range. Our results show shell-forming organisms to be natural archives that enable the determination of metals in polluted and pristine environments.
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