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Cadmium in the Invertebrate Fauna of an Unpolluted Forest in Switzerland

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Cadmium

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The goal of this investigation was to get a general idea of the distribution of cadmium concentrations in the invertebrate fauna of a woodland area without discernable cadmium pollution from anthropogenic sources. About 1000 individual animals representing over 50 different invertebrate species were sampled. The analysis of whole body cadmium concentrations by graphite-furnace atomic absorption spectrometry revealed an extremely wide range amongst animals found in the same area. Geometric mean concentrations ranged from 5 ng/g dry weight for a June bug to more than 5000 ng/g in snails, earthworms and spiders. Intraspecies variability by itself differed also from species to species: For some the calculated concentration range encompassing 95% of the animals did not span more than a factor of two, for others the concentrations varied by more than a factor of 100.

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Knutti, R. et al. (1988). Cadmium in the Invertebrate Fauna of an Unpolluted Forest in Switzerland. In: Stoeppler, M., Piscator, M. (eds) Cadmium. Environmental Toxin Series, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70553-3_14

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